>>>>> "ld" == Linder, Doug <doug.lin...@merchantlink.com> writes:
ld> Very nice. So why isn't it in Fedora (for example)?
I think it's slow and unstable? To me it's not clear yet whether it
will be the first thing in the Linux world that's stable and has
zfs-like capability. If ZFS were GPL it probably would have been,
though.
and I think I needed many other things from Solaris like zones,
COMSTAR, IB, so I'll be trying to get those on Linux too before I can
finally ditch these Solaris machines. so, at the time all those
things are working, what will the best Linux filesystem be? maybe
ZFS.
ld> I'll believe it when I see it in a big Linux distribution,
ld> supported like any other FS, and I can use it in production.
ld> Until then, it doesn't exist.
yes.
but it is not the license exactly that's keeping it out. I think the
license is just annoying some of the Linux developers enough that they
prefer to spend their effort elsewhere. ex., OpenBSD is also refusing
to accept ZFS because of license, but in their case it is probably
``because we are forced to give source and don't want to''. I agree
some of the haggling is stupid, but with all these jackmoves
everywhere, saying ``I don't understand all this crap and want to
code, so give me a license with a track record I can see, not the
Dynacorp Public Goofylicense or something like that,'' is not a
totally stupid position. I do wish people would do more than just
code and try harder to learn the actual license details, though.
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