ZFS On Linux - It's Alive!

lymeca writes "LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incarnation in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer."

The headline...

[Savage-Rabbit]

ZFS On Linux - It's Alive!

Shouldn't it be more like:

ZFS On Linux - It's Alive!! IT IS ALIVE!!! MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

The manic laughter is especially important!

Re:It's time for Sun

[Anarke_Incarnate]

Linux is a kernel (OS If you don't want to be pedantic) and LINUS (Linus) is a programmer and benevolent dictator.

Confuse them again at your own peril.

kernel patch?

[FunkyELF]

Why couldn't this be implemented in the kernel and have the patches to that kernel be hosted in a country which doesn't care too much about licensing?

That's great!

[greginnj]

... but does it run on Plan 9 ?



/me ducks ....

Noooooo!!!!

[r00t]

Linux is becoming a microkernel. Linus might even get a passing grade.