Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

GMail <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 24 November 2008 13:07:34 Dale wrote:
> > I used to be subscribed to the mailing list, thought about using one or
> > the other.  Just before I unsubscribed, there were some people trying to
> > get it back up and going.  I'm not sure how that went or if it is still
> > being worked on or not.  It seemed pretty neat but I just couldn't never
> > get up the nerve to switch over.
> >
> > Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-)
>
> dream on brother, dream on. Ain't gonna happen anytime soon. You'll have 
> better luck getting Sun to dual-license ZFS under GPL :-)

There is no need to dual license ZFS. There is absolutely no problem
with using ZFS from Linux. What's missing is the will from the kernel developers
to work on the incompatible VFS interface in the linux kernel.



Jörg

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