Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Apr 2007 19:05 UTC, submitted by Rahul
A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being reverse engineered. Max Yudin pointed out, "according to Jeff Bonwick's blog Sun issued 56 patents on ZFS, but I have no idea what they patented. Sorry, binary compatible ZFS reimplementation with GPL license might not be legal."
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How is it that Mac OS X and FreeBSD overcame the patents problem ? Wouldn't it be possible for Linux to do things the same way ?
Do they use binary compatible reimplementations of the FS ? If so I guess they're all in the same ship with those patents problems.
(I really doesn't know much about ZFS history and implementations, so please excuse if the answers to those questions are obvious).