Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

From: Matthias Andree
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 05:01:08 EST


On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Andrew Wang wrote:

> ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a
> good file system.
>
> Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while
> ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!?

Reiser4 doesn't appear to work anywhere except with Linux AFAICT, and
being able to move storage between operating systems sure looks
interesting...

> I think for those who ask/beg Sun to release ZFS under
> GPL should do the work to get ReiserFS4 to Linux!

Perhaps you might ask them first if they have looked into porting
Reiser4 to kernel style, ripping out duplicate code - or they decided
that would be a more boring job than porting ZFS :-)

--
Matthias Andree
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