Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 12:55 UTC, submitted by diegocg
The (unstable and development-oriented only) filesystem Btrfs version 0.14 has been released. "Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Initially developed by Oracle, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone."
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NIH is also a political issue.
An impedance mismatch between the ZFS architecture and Linux kernel architecture is *not* political, however. Sun's goals for ZFS, apparently, are for it the be the Solaris filesystem. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. That strategy has its strengths. And in that case, putting the layering of logical levels into ZFS itself makes perfect sense. However, supporting a broad range of filesystems is a strategy which also has its strengths, and that is what Linux does. In that case, having all the layering of raid, volume manager, fs, etc. in ZFS itself makes no sense at all.
No NIH is required to see that ZFS, while a good fit for Solaris, is a poor fit for Linux.
As to licensing... that does have a political aspect. But the problem is primarily a practical one from the Linux kernel devs standpoint. Although an argument could be made that Sun's choice of license might have been motivated by political (or perhaps "strategic" would be a better word) factors.
Edited 2008-04-30 16:44 UTC
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2005-11-10
What political issues? The only problem of ZFS, as far as Linux is concerned, is that its license is GPL incompatible.