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This. ZoL may have more development activity behind it, but due to licencing, it will never be a first-class citizen in Linux like it is on FreeBSD/Illumos. Th
by equalunique 8y ago
This.
ZoL may have more development activity behind it, but due to licencing, it will never be a first-class citizen in Linux like it is on FreeBSD/Illumos. That limitation makes the decision to turn OpenZFS (essentially, ZoL) into the upstream seem unwise.
- loeg 8y agoHonestly, due to the licensing it's not exactly a first-class citizen on FreeBSD either. It's a copyleft license that doesn't pollute other source files, but it's still copyleft for ZFS itself. That is contra to the BSD license.
- hestefisk 8y agoIntegration of ZFS will always be an issue in any platform that is not licensed under Sun’s CDL license. To run ZFS, FreeBSD developers had to effectively build a kernel module that paravirtualises the OpenSolaris kernel. So there will always be integration work. The new upstream rebase should make integration much more smooth and allow for features to be released more quickly to FreeBSD than we have been able to do previously.