From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Tue Jul 7 12:42:46 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A41995761 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:42:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x236.google.com (mail-la0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A72E11206 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:42:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: by laar3 with SMTP id r3so193833314laa.0 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:42:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=6nl3iFA+KQP4icWJ5ph4r2kzCRztocBabqD/nuGRZR8=; b=OePTIZ4kGfcWY/hqTjj2KEaqPHYTmygTbEUNb1C6OwWPzLOF5dHt8oreDlnz3ZS3hA qKgqxk5UEjjhOIq7CfnVNS5qCzmQ3Nme10baFdihQzIzF1Sy2YEgqH9QG8zU7d0p6gQb QXFXwRSU2UfseRyfRvAd7FieZyPZpUvnLsKxbps61pyJrK2eC1Dh9ak1naEklt0iVcvW TOJEjquLU3FPpimW7TH0xZSi66Vxjd9uT72eWKrJNKHyCTaBo1OJYix7E4OIqwogDX15 377yzJQC6GABdwsFPn3Nm/cFU1IF/UfIoXR5r3YbT/+sYWUBf6F4gnkzR/LeTDoX0IYc KZqg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.6.1 with SMTP id w1mr3766042law.91.1436272963706; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.219.35 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 05:42:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <559AC1E4.6050906@sneakertech.com> References: <5599496C.6010702@sneakertech.com> <20150705210306.GA1048@in-addr.com> <559A08AF.9050809@sneakertech.com> <559A14DB.3080905@sneakertech.com> <559A87FE.70309@kateley.com> <559AB32A.7070702@sneakertech.com> <559AC1E4.6050906@sneakertech.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:42:43 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: A question about ZFS built-in SMB From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Quartz Cc: freebsd-fs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:42:46 -0000 On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Quartz 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