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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2006-06-26
SUN is not interested a bit in Linux. They want to sell hardware and give away a copy of Solaris - not Linux.
Anyway, zfs is much overhyped. If you take a closer look you'll notice that Linux has _roughly_ the same features when you take LVM and xfs/jfs in account.