Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/01/2015 06:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net 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,

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 06/01/2015 06:42 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de 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

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 University has a

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jason Warr
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:02:53 -0500, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net 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

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 statement of

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Jason Warr
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:06:20 -0500, Jonathan Billings billi...@negate.org 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de 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

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 decided.

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread m . roth
Joerg Schilling wrote: Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de 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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com 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

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 Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net 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

[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

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net 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

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

2015-05-29 Thread m . roth
Chuck Munro wrote: snip 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

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 btrfs