On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:55:51PM +0000, Dave Wilson wrote: > Khalid Schofield wrote: > > Dev's. > > > > What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite > > bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about > > OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved > > to OpenBSD. > > Given the Dev's have answered this one before, and have better things to > do, I shall take it upon myself. I'm sure they will correct me if I'm > mistaken. > > The ZFS code is under a license which the OpenBSD team have deemed > incompatible with the BSD License they use. [0] > > Whilst there could be a FUSE-based implementation of ZFS on OpenBSD, and > indeed I think one may have already been started, to properly take > advantage of the strength of ZFS the code would have to be in the > kernel. Performance will suck if nothing else. > > If its not BSD-licensed code, its not going in the kernel. End of > discussion. Said policy has been a universal truism of OpenBSD since it > began.
As marco already stated, it could be a kernel module. But it won't. Why? Because nobody will write it. End of discussion, the rest is noise. P.S. Personally, as much as I'd love to see ZFS in OpenBSD, I think dtrace would be much more useful. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
