Khalid Schofield wrote: > Dev's. > > What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite > bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about > OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved > to OpenBSD. > > Khalid > >
Given the Dev's have answered this one before, and have better things to do, I shall take it upon myself. I'm sure they will correct me if I'm mistaken. The ZFS code is under a license which the OpenBSD team have deemed incompatible with the BSD License they use. [0] Whilst there could be a FUSE-based implementation of ZFS on OpenBSD, and indeed I think one may have already been started, to properly take advantage of the strength of ZFS the code would have to be in the kernel. Performance will suck if nothing else. If its not BSD-licensed code, its not going in the kernel. End of discussion. Said policy has been a universal truism of OpenBSD since it began. I would suggest, if you want XFS in OpenBSD[1], set about persuading Sun to re-release the ZFS code as BSD-licensed. Indeed, I think given it would have to be kernel code, I really do mean BSD-licensed rather than BSD-license-compatible. And when you do, be sure to remember to buy Satan some mittens. -- SD [0] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=110806948606417&w=2 [1] Which I personally would love to see.
