Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

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To: Fred . <eldmannen@...>

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Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 3:30 pm

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:13:55PM +0200, Fred . wrote:
quoted text> Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being
> licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL.

Wrong. License is the last of your problems.

quoted text> Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license.

Only read-only.

quoted text> We could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux
> kernel.
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists

And I have some sketches. Not yet ready to send anywhere.

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Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Fred ., (Thu Jul 17, 3:13 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Jeff Garzik, (Thu Jul 17, 3:45 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jul 20, 6:57 am)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Kevin Winchester, (Sun Jul 20, 8:35 am)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Jul 21, 3:28 am)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Kevin Winchester, (Mon Jul 21, 7:39 am)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Dave Kleikamp, (Sun Jul 20, 12:56 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Evgeniy Polyakov, (Thu Jul 17, 4:18 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Alan Cox, (Thu Jul 17, 2:55 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Alexey Dobriyan, (Thu Jul 17, 3:30 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jul 17, 3:28 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Matthias Schniedermeyer, (Fri Jul 18, 6:28 am)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Mihai , (Thu Jul 17, 6:33 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Rafael C. de Almeida, (Thu Jul 17, 10:03 pm)

Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources), Patrick Draper, (Fri Jul 18, 8:27 am)


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