On 8/8/23 05:17, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
and I wonder, parenthetically, why FreeBSD and NetBSD are willing to support ZFS, but OpenBSD is not
I think that is a question for the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams, why are they willing to spend the extra time in support, and face the potential legal risk in terms of patent lawsuit exposure, in supporting ZFS.
While there are things I think would be "nice to haves" in the OpenBSD world, I can understand a small team deciding a particular feature is technically and/or legally, not worth the trouble.
LVM is far from a trivial feature to add, and it's not like they can just copy the implementation from the Linux kernel -- not unless they wanted the resulting work to be GPL-licensed.
I think it's time to recognise this particular horse is dead, and is no longer available for rides.
-- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
