Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month 273
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work.'"
Hey if Phoronix says it, it has to be true! (Score:4, Funny)
ZFS recap (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ZFS recap (Score:3, Funny)
But we're all slashdotters here, so who can read the article to do the recap? I believe this is a belling-the-cat problem.
Re:If it comes out and works well (Score:3, Funny)
> If you think LVM + ext3 is better than NTFS sorry that speaks only to ignorance and possible Linux zealotry, not to knowledge.
Too bad you spent all of that space and didn't actually come up with any real reasons to justify this position.
Re:Using SSD as an HD cache / ZFS L2ARC (Score:3, Funny)
I seriously doubt that mounting /. As your filesyatem will help in any way. You'd end up just reading and commenting on each post and forget TFA altogether.
Re:Freedom ain't free (Score:3, Funny)
What could be better than taking a sledgehammer to a disk drive without causing problems?
Shooting it with a .45?
Re:Can I remove a disk from it yet? (Score:4, Funny)