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I thought the license was incompatible? Also, what does this mean for BTRFS?

• ferrari8608 11y ago
  The license does not allow for ZFS to be included in the kernel. It runs in user space.
  • melted 11y ago
    Then perf will likely suck.
    • ferrari8608 11y ago
      That really just depends on the configuration. NTFS-3G has done pretty well in user space, so there's no reason ZFS can't.
      • melted 11y ago
        NTFS-3G didn't have to perform well at NVME latencies and speeds. This has to, to be taken seriously.
  • cballard 11y ago
    I don't know much about Linux kernel architecture, but could it be a separate binary loaded at runtime by the kernel, so that it's not actually part of the kernel?
    • melted 11y ago
      That's how http://zfsonlinux.org/ http://zfsonlinux.org/ approaches it. Maybe Ubuntu will just package it in the standard distro. That'd be a bit underwhelming if that's what it is. From what little I know about ZFS, its designers basically thought that traditional layering of how storage is approached in UNIX didn't make sense, so they re-did much of it from scratch. As a result, ZFS doesn't really natively fit as a pluggable filesystem.