Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

From: Matthias Schniedermeyer
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 06:29:01 EST


On 17.07.2008 12:28, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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
>
> From what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal readonly implementation.

Which wasn't problem for NTFS, which was RO for years.

RO is still better than nothing, you can copy files from an ZFS.



Bis denn

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