> From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garr...@nexenta.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:17 PM > > (The only way I could see this changing would be if there was a sudden > license change which would permit either ZFS to overtake btrfs in the > Linux kernel, or permit btrfs to overtake zfs in the Solaris kernel. I
Of course this has been discussed extensively, but I believe, the reasons for ZFS not to be in Linux kernel go beyond just the license incompatibility. ZFS does raid, and mirroring, and resilvering, and partitioning, and NFS, and CIFS, and iSCSI, and device management via vdev's, and so on. So ZFS steps on a lot of linux peoples' toes. They already have code to do this, or that, why should they kill off all these other projects, and turn the world upside down, and bow down and acknowledge that anyone else did anything better than what they did? No, they just want a copy-on-write filesystem, and nothing more. Something which more closely complies to the architecture model that they're already using. Something which doesn't hurt their ego when they accept it... And of course by "they" I'm mostly referring to Linus. And all the people who work on kernel, ext fs, software raid, and all these other things which already exist in a "More Linuxy" way... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
