> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Bill McGonigle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 18, 2008, at 14:01, Mario Goebbels wrote: > > > >> I mean, if the Linux folks to want it, fine. But > if Sun's actually > >> helping with such a possible effort, then it's > just shooting itself in > >> the foot here, in my opinion. > > > > > > [....] > > they're quick to do it - they threatened to sue me > when they couldn't > > figure out how to take back a try-out server). > > There's a story contained within that for sure! :) > You brought a smile > to this subscriber when I read it. > > > > Having ZFS as a de- facto standard lifts all boats, > IMHO. > It's still hard to believe (in one sense) that the > entire world isn't > beating a path to Sun's door and PLEADING for ZFS. > This is (if y'all > will forgive the colloquialism) a kick-ass amazing > piece of software. > It appears to defy all the rules, a bit like > levitation in a way, or > perhaps it just rewrites those rules. There are days > I still can't get > my head around what ZFS really is. > > In general, licensing issues just make my brain > bleed, but one hopes > that the licensing gurus can get their heads together > and find a way > to get this done. I don't personally believe that > Open Solaris *OR* > Solaris will lose if ZFS makes its way over the fence > to Linux, I > think that this is a big enough tent for everyone. > Sure hope so > anyway, it would be immensely sad to see technology > like this not > being adopted/ported/migrated/whatever more widely > because of "damn > lawyers" and the morass called licensing. > > Perhaps (gazing into a cloudy crystal ball that > hasn't been cleaned in > a while) Solaris/Open Solaris can manage to hold onto > ZFS-on-boot > which is perhaps *the* most mind bending > accomplishment within the zfs > concept, and let the rest procreate elsewhere. That > could contribute > to the "must-have/must-install" cachet of > Solaris/OpenSolaris.
Umm, I think it's too late for that; as I recall, the bits needed for read-only access had to be made dual CDDL/GPL to be linked with GRUB. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
