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We may get a successor filesystem before that particular situation is sorted out.. By all accounts mainline is at best not interested, if not actively against
by tux3 3y ago
We may get a successor filesystem before that particular situation is sorted out..
By all accounts mainline is at best not interested, if not actively against ZFS on Linux. The last few kerfuffles around symbols used by the out-of-tree module laid out the position rather unambiguously.
- betaby 3y ago> successor filesystem Which one?
- pa7ch 3y agobcachefs presumably
- j16sdiz 3y agowe have heard the same with btrfs.
- chungy 3y agobcachefs has had time to actually mature instead of being kneecapped early on by an angry Linus Torvalds when btrfs's on disk format changed and broke his Fedora install.
- mappu 3y agoBtrfs on mdadm is an excellent ZFS alternative.
- mustache_kimono 3y agoBut it's not really an alternative, is it? It's near-beer.
- Nextgrid 3y ago> The last few kerfuffles around symbols used by the out-of-tree module laid out the position rather unambiguously. Source, for someone who isn't following kernel mailing lists?
- tux3 3y agoI was thinking of this thread from 5.0 in particular (2019, time flies!) https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190110182413.GA6932@kroah.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190110182413.GA6932@kroah.com/
- Nextgrid 3y agoIt’s sad to see that free software under a license (and movement) that was born out of someone’s frustration with closed-source printer drivers (acting as DRM, albeit inadvertently) appears to include similar DRM whose sole purpose is to restrict usage of a (seemingly arbitrary) selection of symbols.
- tux3 3y agoIt is. That said, I can't fault people too much for being afraid of the lawnmower. People have been mowed for much less.
- ilyt 3y agoSo, why OpenZFS can't fix their license ?
- toast0 3y agoOpenZFS is a fork of the Sun/Oracle release of ZFS. The OpenZFS maintainers cannot change the license without consent of the copyright owners, and Oracle is unlikely to consent. Oracle could potentially change the terms in a future release of CDDL, and that might work, too. Similarly, Linux probably has too many contributors, some of which are no longer living, to come to an agreement on a fixed license either. Although, license changes do happen; OpenSSL did one recently, but I think there are fewer contributors.