ZFS in Fedora?

[Rudolf Kastl]

On Nov 29, 2007 2:01 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> >> In an article in Information Week on November 5, 2007 I read, "What Sun's
> >> OpenSolaris Means For Open Source
> >>
> >> Sun Microsystems has turned its Solaris operating system, which uses the
> >> next-generation ZFS file system, into an open-source project; free downloads
> >> are now available. " This is at:
> >>  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683
> >>
> >> Does this mean that ZFS can be implemented in Fedora? Is anyone aware of a
> >> port?
> >
> > Sun have so far not made it available under GPLv2, and it isn't clear a
> > parallel implementation done from scratch under GPLv2 would not fall foul
> > of their patents. They've so far not replied to requests to clarify that.
> >
> > At the moment ZFS is also subject to lawsuits between NetApp and Sun.
> >
>
> Has anyone considered a fedora/RH userland on top of an OpenSolaris
> kernel like the Nexenta project does with Ubuntu?  Their recent work
> seems to be on commercially supported storage appliance software though
> and I'm not quite sure why the user side even matters there.

Well how about having GNU/Hurd imported into rawhide ;) atleast it
doesent have licensing problems.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl

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