Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 15:45:31 EST


Fred . wrote:
Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being
licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL.

Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license. We
could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux
kernel.

http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists

Linux needs btrfs upstream more than it needs ZFS...

Jeff



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