ZFS in Fedora?

[Konstantin Svist]

cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:35:55 PM
> Subject: Re: ZFS in Fedora?
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:17 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > In an article in Information Week on November 5, 2007 I read, "What 
> Sun's
> > OpenSolaris Means For Open Source
> >
> > Sun Microsystems has turned its Solaris operating system, which uses 
> the
> > next-generation ZFS file system, into an open-source project; free 
> downloads
> > are now available. " This is at:
> >   
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683
> >
> > Does this mean that ZFS can be implemented in Fedora? Is anyone 
> aware of a
> > port?
>
> Unless they changed some stuff, parts of ZFS aren't GPLv2-compliant (it
> was developed under Sun's CDDL), so you really put it in the kernel
> without some legal issues.  You can use it safely under FUSE, but it'll
> be slower than as a kernel module.
>
>
> A FUSE module might be usable, but wouldn't it be awesome if the 
> atrpms or livna people provided a kmdl or kmod for it?
>
> BTW, what is the difference between a kmod and a kmdl?
>
> Joh

As I understand it, the repos (including livna & atrpms) do not do any 
software development. They have their hands full just building the 
package binaries and maintaining the proper versions/etc.

That said, I agree - it would be really awesome if someone made ZFS work 
on linux natively. I'd even take a "build your own kernel to make this 
work.. here are the patches.. no support.. have fun!" -- but not even 
that is likely to happen.
For now, I'm holding my breath for brtfs (which is due a few years from 
now, I suppose)