On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:15 AM, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > On 06/04/17 10:54, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth >> <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: >>> >>> ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native >>> in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm >>> not going that path for production environments. >> >> What do you mean by "native?" >> >> The upstream deb and rpm files use dkms (as well as kmod for RHEL and >> clones) and Ubuntu ships zfs pre-compiled. This is "native" in my >> book. >> >> I've used and am using zfs in production on Linux and it's good and stable. > > My meaning of "native" is that it is included in the upstream Linux > kernel, not a side-loaded product/project/kernel module.
Thanks. I read a later email in which you said that. zfs'll never be in-tree for licensing reasons.