From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423169AbXD3JAl (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423173AbXD3JAl (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:00:41 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48652 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1423169AbXD3I7v (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:59:51 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+uurMVaEeuKo/7qqM106q/h3NxHfUmNLmuL9ExiQ 4D0kAmAST0lhcx Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:59:48 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Andrew Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !? Message-ID: <20070430085948.GC3701@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Wang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <660658.6960.qm@web73512.mail.tp2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <660658.6960.qm@web73512.mail.tp2.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-24) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Andrew Wang wrote: > ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a > good file system. > > Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while > ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? Reiser4 doesn't appear to work anywhere except with Linux AFAICT, and being able to move storage between operating systems sure looks interesting... > I think for those who ask/beg Sun to release ZFS under > GPL should do the work to get ReiserFS4 to Linux! Perhaps you might ask them first if they have looked into porting Reiser4 to kernel style, ripping out duplicate code - or they decided that would be a more boring job than porting ZFS :-) -- Matthias Andree