As Brad Figg commented earlier, we will only take filesystems into
Ubuntu from the mainline. There has been a lot of discussion about ZFS
on the mailing lists and, in general, it is a non-starter due to
litigation and patent licensing. As a result, we are unable to to
anything until that is resolved and a stable implementation is accepted
in the mainline. File system acceptance is far more conservative than
driver inclusion because valuable user data is directly affected.
Btrfs, which is very much a next generation filesystem relative to both
ZFS and ADVFS, is already in current kernels as an experimental
filesystem. Once it moves from experimental, Ubuntu will use it via the
same process we adopted Ext4.
Karmic does include the btrfs module and the user land tools are also
packaged. HOWEVER, this is EXPERIMENTAL and there are KNOWN BUGS that
frighten small children and lose or corrupt data. It is experimental at
this time and should not be used on systems if one has any data that
they are not willing to lose.
This bug is closed as a "Won't fix" because this is an issue that Ubuntu
has no control over.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
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