Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by crankyadmin » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 1:45 PM UTC

Native port of ZFS for Linux
github.com

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by pasbesoin » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 3:26 PM UTC

Just to note: The GitHub account user name is Brian Behlendorf.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by ddrager » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 3:43 PM UTC

It makes sense that this surfaces 1 week after reformatting my Ubuntu box to use OpenSolaris and native ZFS.

Also of note:

This ZFS on Linux port was produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) for the operation of LLNL. It has been approved for release under LLNL-CODE-403049.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by crankyadmin » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 3:48 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #2

Just to note: The GitHub account user name is Brian Behlendorf.

Not the Apache one... the other one! :D

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by jws » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 3:51 PM UTC

Did the ZFS patents ever get sorted out? The US government needn't worry about this, they have an exemption, but the rest of the world should care. Sun has a truckload of patents on ZFS that, last I'd heard, they were not granting free to ZFS users, and NetApp thought they had a patent on it as well, at least enough to sue Sun.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by lallysingh » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 4:06 PM UTC

Note that this is just a port of the OpenSolaris code base -- not a reimplementation. CDDL copyrights, patents, etc., are still big considerations before this can be used.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by koenigdavidmj » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 4:31 PM UTC

They claim that they're legally free and clear, but a lot of the kernel devs are of the view that kernel modules are derived works of the kernel and therefore have to be GPL.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by MikeCapone » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

Would love to see ZFS (or at least something better than HFS) on OS X. Anyone has info on that? Anything in the pipeline?

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by X-Istence » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

MikeCapone wrote: post #8

Would love to see ZFS (or at least something better than HFS) on OS X. Anyone has info on that? Anything in the pipeline?

Apple had one point had read/write support for ZFS, but it was pulled because Sun at the time was not able to provide certain guarantees. There was an email by one of the main guys in ZFS that said something to that effect.

As such ZFS on Mac OS X is a dead project.

Re: Native port of ZFS for Linux

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Post by X-Istence » Fri, Jun 04, 2010, 5:42 PM UTC

jws wrote: post #5

Did the ZFS patents ever get sorted out? The US government needn't worry about this, they have an exemption, but the rest of the world should care. Sun has a truckload of patents on ZFS that, last I'd heard, they were not granting free to ZFS users, and NetApp thought they had a patent on it as well, at least enough to sue Sun.

If the patents were a big issue I don't think we would have ZFS in FreeBSD.