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On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 00:37 -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
On Monday, June 29, 2020 12:32:56 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 6/29/20 12:27 AM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
>
> > On Monday, June 29, 2020 12:18:28 AM MST Samuel Sieb wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/28/20 11:35 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > For the best filesystem ever created, ZFS, I can't say that I
> > > > agree
> > > > with
> > > > your assessment of that value. Having ZFS in Fedora would
> > > > throw Fedora
> > > > over the top as being the best Linux distro, hands down. I
> > > > can count
> > > > the
> > > > number of times that having root on ZFS has led to me waiting
> > > > on kernel
> > > > updates over the past three years on one hand, and could
> > > > still do so if
> > > > I
> > > > had half as many fingers!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How many times are you going to keep mentioning ZFS? It's
> > > completely
> > > off the table, not allowed, never happening. (I consider the
> > > chance of
> > > Oracle doing something reasonable to be immeasurably small.)
> >
> >
> > See the relevant section of Mark's email. I also don't see how
> > it'd
> > require Oracle to change anything in order to get OpenZFS into
> > Fedora.
>
>
> You were mentioning ZFS, not OpenZFS. However, it's still the same
> problem. OpenZFS is CDDL which won't be accepted. The only way
> that
> can be changed is if Oracle does something. And as long as OpenZFS
> is
> an out-of-tree module, it won't be in Fedora.
ZFS, in terms of Linux support, is generally OpenZFS. You will note
that Mark
also simply said "ZFS". Yes, OpenZFS is under CDDL. That's not really
a
problem. See
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-cddl.html
. Ubuntu's solution is wouldn't work for us, and it is a GPL
violation
(
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/), but
it's also not necessary. The package for OpenZFS could be provided as
a kmod
package instead, which would *not* be a GPL violation.
I don't understand the attitude against this particular out-of-tree
module, as
it's readily available for every kernel within days of release. The
longest
lulls have been around holidays, where it took up to 5 days to get
support for
the latest stable kernel.
First of all, Fedora is packaging not only latest stable kernel. Fedora
is building kernel from git in rawhide almost daily. Secondly, kmods in
Fedora are not allowed.
--
John M. Harris, Jr.
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