Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > All that matters for CentOS is: > > 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS because of Red Hat's lawyers' interpretation >of GPL+CDDL > 2: Arguing about it here will not change #1 > 3: CentOS ships a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and so won't ha

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Mon, June 1, 2015 11:06 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > According to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/79633 : > > Hm... this best answer is meant for RedHat Enterprise subscribers' eyes > only... > > Even though my Universit

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread m . roth
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > >> Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling >> said: >> > Note that it is without doubt that ZFS was not derived from the Linux >> > kernel and thus cannot be a derived work. >> >> All that matters for CentOS is: >> >> 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS because of

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jason Warr
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:06:20 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: I think that you need to simplify #1 to: 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS As that is really all that matters and so that people can't argue that you are making a statement

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Mon, June 1, 2015 11:06 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: >> I think that you need to simplify #1 to: >> >> 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS >> >> As that is really all that matters and so that people can't argue that >> you >> are making a st

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: > I think that you need to simplify #1 to: > > 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS > > As that is really all that matters and so that people can't argue that you > are making a statement of knowledge about what/why Red Hat's lawyers have > decid

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jason Warr
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:02:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: All that matters for CentOS is: 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS because of Red Hat's lawyers' interpretation of GPL+CDDL 2: Arguing about it here will not change #1 3: CentOS ships a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and so won't have t

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling said: > > Note that it is without doubt that ZFS was not derived from the Linux > > kernel > > and thus cannot be a derived work. > > All that matters for CentOS is: > > 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS because of Red Hat's lawyers' interpretat

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling said: > Note that it is without doubt that ZFS was not derived from the Linux kernel > and thus cannot be a derived work. All that matters for CentOS is: 1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS because of Red Hat's lawyers' interpretation of GPL+CDDL 2: Arguing about it

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrew Holway wrote: > > > > > > OK, plese note that I am not willing to tolerate anti-oss claims and will > > continue to correct similar false claims. If you don't like those > > discussions > > at all, you should try to avoid false claims and the need for corrections. > > > > If I were RedHat,

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > OK, plese note that I am not willing to tolerate anti-oss claims and will > continue to correct similar false claims. If you don't like those > discussions > at all, you should try to avoid false claims and the need for corrections. > If I were RedHat, including a non GPL filesystem into my

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Could you explain why you did not reply to the mail fropm Chris Adams who > > introduced a false claim about so called "opinions of a number of lawyers"? > > > > As mentioned: lawyers explain why there is no problem with ZFS integration. > > If > > you don't like usel

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/01/2015 07:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 06/01/2015 06:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Chuck Munro wrote: >>> I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/01/2015 06:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Chuck Munro wrote: > > > >> I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is > >> the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the > >> ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/01/2015 06:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Chuck Munro wrote: > >> I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is >> the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the >> ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, political, etc?

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chuck Munro said: > > I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what > > is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with > > the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, > > political, etc? > > Lic

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Licensing, IMO. Redistributing ZoL is likely fraught with a bit of > legal peril, or at best, technical peril if you want to try and skirt > the legal edges. Oracle is notoriously litigious and having a target > liked Red Hat would probably have their lawyers whetting th

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chuck Munro wrote: > I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is > the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the > ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, political, etc? There is no licensing issue, but there are OpenSource

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux - green drive cmt

2015-05-29 Thread m . roth
Chuck Munro wrote: > As an aside, I have used only WD Black and WD RedPro drives for RAID, > and not had any issues. Green drives are scary :-) It's the TLER that kills you. We tried some early 3TB greens in some of our Penguins (OEM, rebranded Supermicro), and within a month, they'd start givin

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chuck Munro said: > I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what > is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with > the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, > political, etc? Licensing. Sun chose an Open Source

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-05-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:51:58AM -0700, Chuck Munro wrote: > I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what > is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with > the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, > political, etc? > > Although

[CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-05-29 Thread Chuck Munro
I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, political, etc? Although btrfs is making progress, ZFS is far more mature, has a few more stab