On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 13:16, Gua Chung Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > > * [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since FreeBSD recently announced to move to using ZFSonLinux as their > > upstream source > > for ZFS > > (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html), > > what has been the development of ZFS in NetBSD so far? Did you use the same > > sources? > > Regardless of the answer, is using ZFSoLinux a consideration for future > > development? > ZFS is not BSD. > It is CDDL. see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License > FreeBSD doesn't care much about the license. > But we do, I think. >
Nothing to do with the licence. ZFS is CDDL under every system. NetBSD already has ZFS. I've used it in the past with mixed success; it used to fail for me under higher load, the last few tries were OK, though. The thread is about switching to ZoL as upstream, as opposed to Illumos - mainly due to the apparently heavy process there - I'd guess inherited, at least partially, from Sun, as well as the statement that a great deal of ZFS innovation now comes from ZoL, perhaps because it has the widest commercial support base. The discussion is if this move might bring unwanted linuxisms to FreeBSD by the back door - the proposed solution being splitting ZFS code in MI/MD parts. We'll see. > -- > Gua Chung Lim > > "UNIX is basically a simple operating system, > but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." > -- Dennis M. Ritchie > -- ----
