On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwal<anu...@kqinfotech.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to >>> linux. >>> When we posted our progress about port last year, then we came to know >>> about >>> the work on LLNL port. Since then we started working on to re-base our >>> changing on top Brian's changes. >>> >>> We are working on porting ZPL on that code. Our current status is that >>> mount/unmount is working. Most of the directory operations and read/write >>> is >>> also working. There is still lot more development work and testing that >>> needs to be going in this. But we are committed to make this happen so >>> please stay tuned. >>> >> >> Good times ahead! >> > > I don't mean to be a PITA, but I'm assuming that someone lawyerly has had > the appropriate discussions with the porting team about how linking against > the GPL'd Linux kernel means your kernel module has to be GPL-compatible. > It doesn't matter if you distribute it outside the general kernel source > tarball, what matters is that you're linking against a GPL program, and the > old GPL v2 doesn't allow for a non-GPL-compatibly-licensed module to do > that. > > As a workaround, take a look at what nVidia did for their X driver - it uses > a GPL'd kernel module as a shim, which their codebase can then call from > userland. Which is essentially what the ZFS FUSE folks have been reduced to > doing.
How does EMC get away with it with powerpath, or Symantec with VxVM and VxFS? -- I don't recall any shim modules with either product on Linux when I used them at a previous job, yet they're still there. > If the new work is a whole new implementation of the ZFS *design* intended > for the linux kernel, then Yea! Great! (fortunately, it does sound like > this is what's going on) Otherwise, OpenSolaris CDDL'd code can't go into a > Linux kernel, module or otherwise. Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is GPL licensed, but I don't think that's the case. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
