From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754000AbXDOV6g (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754001AbXDOV6g (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:58:36 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]:6760 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754000AbXDOV6f (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:58:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mkwqrPhkAtgewvRfleGEKtXzmaOKFglIg8bAZ54dpPfjWEy8pBwlQlKriRtEZnGidRXqgEwE93bWLsud3RGb2OyWcDR1qwouLnB3I6D28SPFvTrXxVJD+E5wEcVGKA2+jIoUpNmcFnYjjE8CqRtNL2WfOVlTvGGvO04Mmk8YGhY= Message-ID: <9a8748490704151458s32b7f066h62b4d3a565b539ed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:58:34 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "David R. Litwin" Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14/04/07, David R. Litwin wrote: > Before I go on, let me appologise. I don't really know what I hope to > accomplish, beyond trying to garner thoughts (and support?) for the topic. > > Essentially: I want to use Linux and ZFS. I don't particularly care about > licences or any of the rest of that nonsense. The license that protects the code we write is far from nonsense. >The code is there; it merely > needs to be made to work with Linux. Done and done -- provided I can find > some one to do this for me (I'd do it myself, but I haven't the foggiest > notion how to go about such a feat). > I suggest the first thing you do is contact the ZFS developers and convince them to release their code under a license that's GPL compatible, then we can start looking at a Linux port. > By the way, forget about this FUSE business. I don't know why they're > bothering: It's not real, it's slow and, in general, silly. > FUSE is nice for trying out new and interresting ideas in userspace - it has its uses. > What are the thoughts of the Linux community? > Can't tell you that, all I can tell you is my own oppinion. I believe ZFS for Linux would be interresting, if not for any other reason then for compatibility. I'd personally like to see it - but, settle the license issue first. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html