<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@internap.com><br>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:35:55 PM<br>Subject: Re: ZFS in Fedora?<br><br>
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:17 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:<br>> In an article in Information Week on November 5, 2007 I read, "What
Sun's <br>> OpenSolaris Means For Open Source<br>> <br>> Sun Microsystems has turned its Solaris operating system, which uses
the <br>> next-generation ZFS file system, into an open-source project; free
downloads <br>> are now available. " This is at:<br>>
<a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683" target="_blank">http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683</a><br>> <br>> Does this mean that ZFS can be implemented in Fedora? Is anyone aware
of a <br>> port?<br><br>Unless they changed some stuff, parts of ZFS aren't GPLv2-compliant (it<br>was developed under Sun's CDDL), so you really put it in the kernel<br>without some legal issues. You can use it safely under FUSE, but it'll<br>be slower than as a kernel module.<br><br></div><br>A FUSE module might be usable, but wouldn't it be awesome if the atrpms or livna people provided a kmdl or kmod for it?<br><br>BTW, what is the difference between a kmod and a kmdl?<br><br>Joh<br></div></div></div></body></html>