Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:28:38 +0200 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) |
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On 17.07.2008 12:28, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Fred . wrote: >> Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being >> licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL. >> >> Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license. 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 > > From what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal readonly implementation.
Which wasn't problem for NTFS, which was RO for years.
RO is still better than nothing, you can copy files from an ZFS.
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