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On 15/04/07, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote: On 14/04/07, David R. Litwin <presently42@gmail.com> wrote: > Before I go on, let me appologise. I don't really know what I hope to > accomplish, beyond trying to garner thoughts (and support?) for the > topic. > > Essentially: I want to use Linux and ZFS. I don't particularly care about > licences or any of the rest of that nonsense. The license that protects the code we write is far from nonsense. I know. In the end, this is the reason this topic is being discussed. I suggest the first thing you do is contact the ZFS developers and convince them to release their code under a license that's GPL compatible, then we can start looking at a Linux port. I began by contacting them. One of the devs there told me to contact the Linux devs. > FUSE is nice for trying out new and interresting ideas in userspace - > it has its uses. Yes, but it is not really for the end-user. To paraphrase another, it is mostly academic. > What are the thoughts of the Linux community? > > Can't tell you that, all I can tell you is my own oppinion. You make up a member of the Linux community. > I believe > ZFS for Linux would be interresting, if not for any other reason then > for compatibility. For the greater glory of Linux? :-) > I'd personally like to see it - but, settle the > license issue first. And we've come full circle: The liconsinc issue. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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