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Everytime I read about ZFS all I can think about is how awesome and improbable it would be for Oracle to change the license on both ZFS and Dtrace so it can jus
by thinkingkong 11y ago
Everytime I read about ZFS all I can think about is how awesome and improbable it would be for Oracle to change the license on both ZFS and Dtrace so it can just get shipped in mainline linux.
- maheart 11y agoDebian[1] and Ubuntu[2] are both working on making ZFS first-class: easily available and easily manageable. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Debian-Libdvdcss-Packages http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Debia... [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZFS-Standard-Plans http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZF...
- thinkingkong 11y agoYes but without a change to the license itll never go into the kernel. While that might make not change things operationally for some people, not having it ship with the source means itll always be a second-class citizen.
- kev009 11y agoThat doesn't matter to anyone other than GPL fans in practical terms if Debian and Ubuntu do their thing right.
- unixhero 11y agoThe GPL aside. Being accepted in the kernel would mean the immense rate how development which happens there.
- kev009 11y agoAgain, that's from rosy GPL glasses. At worst, ZoL would be forever one or two kernel releases behind (and is basically reality now), which means very little to production users running LTS distros.