Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

[Nganon <nganon+gentoo@gmail.com>]

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On 18 August 2010 21:49, Joerg Schilling <
Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
> > > Clear now, thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >     If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
> > >
> > >
> > > AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
>
> Why do you believe ZFS is unmaintained?
>
>
I was unsure, thats why I asked if I was wrong. My bad.

 > Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
> > remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
> > licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
> > BTRFS on my dev box and the simple workout I gave it did not tax it in
> > any way--it worked okay.
>
> ZFS has a very free license. This was the reason, why it could be ported to
> the
> BSDs. So why do you believe there is a "license hurdle"?
>
>
Because ZFS is licensed with Sun CDDL, which is incompatible with GNU GPL,
so it cant be distributed with Linux kernel. That's why it is ported to
FUSE.

 Also note: btrfs now is three years old. ZFS was started aprox. 10 years
> ago.
> For this reason, btrfs is expected to need another 7 years to readh the
> level
> of stability currently seen with ZFS.
>
>
ZFS was announced on 2004. So approximately six year, not ten. Besides,
things in
computer world do not always work that linearly, you know.

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