Re: file systems

Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> writes:

>> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using
>> debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd,
>> so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well.
>>
>> i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs with straight debian
>> (which is really what we are leaning to) as we start our research on
>> the matter.
>>
>

> You also need to take into account that CDDL (The Sun/Oracle Licence)
> is not compatible with the GNU Licence, so there are legal issues as
> well (see the ZFS link I initially posted a few days ago.) The whole
> point of the rewrite project is to have a native (in-kernel) solution
> that is legally compatible as well as stable (which it's not right
> now.)
>

ok this pretty well seals things. we aren't thinking about doing debian
to support the BSD license (not that i have anything personal against
it, but if we're talking 'free', we need to 'stay free' and not play with
the idea, imho).

so thanks for eliminating the final brick, chris - xfs here we come!

CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun Microsystems and is now Oracle. The BSD Licence and GNU can co-exists quite well and have for a very long time. CDDL + *BSD Licences are a little more tolerant of each other which is why ZFS was imported into FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Once the Linux native solution gains some ground stability-wise, they can seek to find some common ground when it comes to the legalities of it.

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