HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem [LWN.net]

HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 24, 2008 1:10 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem by trasz
Parent article: HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Sun structured the license for ZFS quite carefully and in a very specific manner to prevent it
from ever being incorporated into Linux. I doubt the Linux folks will ever touch the source
code whose author has made it plainly known that they don't want it in the Linux kernel.

If you want to use ZFS in Linux you will have to use http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE 

Fuse file systems work quite well and I use them on a daily basis. Namely sshfs and smbnetfs.
Never touched ZFS though.

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HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 24, 2008 2:05 UTC (Tue) by pjdc (subscriber, #6906) [Link]

Allow me to translate trasz's remark for you: "Gosh, this advfs sure sounds a like like zfs!".

HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 24, 2008 18:46 UTC (Tue) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Question: Which one was first created?

Anyway, it sounds like a cool filesystem - thanks HP for making it available!

HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 24, 2008 19:53 UTC (Tue) by pjdc (subscriber, #6906) [Link]

advfs, by about a decade.

HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 25, 2008 21:31 UTC (Wed) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

Actually, ZFS license is just a slightly more liberal Mozilla license.  It is GPL that
prohibits linking with anything that is not a subset of GPL.  That's why there are many
non-GPL-compatible licenses, but there are no non-CDDL-compliant, non-MPL-compliant or
non-BSD-compliant or whatever.  The full problem lies in GPL, not CDDL.

Of course, the "GPL" above is in fact "GPL as interpreted by RMS".

But I digress.

What I meant was, the usual way of doing stuff right now is a filesystem-on-top-of-lvm.  AdvFS
seems to have this two "layers" integrated together, just like ZFS.

And yes, AdvFS had it decade ago.