Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:42:43 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> Cc: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A question about ZFS built-in SMB Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSexpU8j5ibkSO3_TSZrkPYLe5gbee2pgMrY7N66R8UYSQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <559AC1E4.6050906@sneakertech.com> References: <5599496C.6010702@sneakertech.com> <20150705210306.GA1048@in-addr.com> <559A08AF.9050809@sneakertech.com> <CAOjFWZ4ktnPGeqKgv-SLtpfEajnYnOQ7rHZr6JYD6jYw6r835A@mail.gmail.com> <559A14DB.3080905@sneakertech.com> <559A87FE.70309@kateley.com> <559AB32A.7070702@sneakertech.com> <CA%2B7WWSc%2BgzMDysc345Qpnd6HtsUKcwrndsAjiXEri%2BABssPGDg@mail.gmail.com> <559AC1E4.6050906@sneakertech.com>
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote: > >>> Oh ok. I was under the impression that Linux ZFS was basically a >>> hack/port >>> of the FreeBSD version due to licensing issues, and the FreeBSD version >>> was >>> itself a port of the illumos version. >>> >> >> http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue >> >> There is no real licensing issue since ZFS can be compiled into a >> loadable kernel module(s) on Linux (just as it is used in FreeBSD >> anyway) and that avoids the clash between the two mutually >> incompatible licenses. > > > Did this change recently? Last time I looked was a few years ago and ZFS on > Linux was still largely an awkward hack because what they had to do to work > around the licensing issue. I heavily investigated the Debian/kFreeBSD > project before just going with mainline FreeBSD. > > > As far as I understand the main issue was that the ZFS sources couldn't be imported to the kernel source tree and built into a kernel module with the other similar kernel modules. The solution was to build the kernel module separately treating it as a 3rd party "binary blob". -Kimmo
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