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What are we afraid of?What are we afraid of?Posted Jan 31, 2008 18:45 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: What are we afraid of? by zooko Parent article: LCA: The state of Debian
the CDDL is not compatible with the GPL period. this means that you can't take CDDL code (ZFS) and include it in GPL code (the linux kernel) until sun changes the licensing of ZFS to be compatible with the GPL there is no way to integrate the two. there are portions of ZFS that have been released under the GPL (enough for GRUB to be able to read files from it), but most of the code has not been. the only people who can fix this incompatibility are at Sun.
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What are we afraid of? Posted Jan 31, 2008 19:02 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I wasn't talking about shipping a kernel comprising Linux and ZFS. I was talking about Nexenta -- http://nexenta.org -- a project to compile Ubuntu packages on Solaris so that you can use all the familiar userland tools such as apt-get and also the beautiful new Solaris tools such as ZFS and dtrace. For example, the nexenta folks have created a tool called "apt-clone", which uses ZFS snapshots to make it possible to rewind to that particular set of installed debian packages. Isn't that awesome?
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