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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by nailer on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @12:18PM (#521898)
I would love it too, but why don't you think GPLv3 ZFS would help Linux? It's good technology, the license just isn't GPL compatible.
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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by rbanffy on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:37PM (#521961)
Because Linux is (and will be for the foreseeable future) licensed under GPLv2, which is incompatible with software under v3. There are also some issues on driver architecture that make ZFS and the Linux kernel a tough match.
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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by nailer on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @03:17PM (#522158)
Point taken.
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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by cookiecaper on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:41PM (#521970)
btrfs is supposed to one-up ZFS anyway, and that's going into mainline as experimental with the imminent release of 2.6.29. I'm not sure how btrfs and ZFS they compare, just know that btrfs is being developed since Linux has been unable to get ZFS.
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