CDDL+GPL and stuff

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

seventhguardian at gmail.com wrote:
> The good way (TM) to put ZFS in linux would be to work in a "clean
> room" way. I mean, find someone that can look at the source code and
> document ZFS in detail (the mechanism, not the source code), and then
> find someone that can take the documentation only (never looked at the
> source code) and write a good GPL'ed module.

ZFS is complex so this would be a huge amount of work.

Theoretical discussion aside, are people aware of the port of ZFS to
FUSE on Linux.  Since userspace programs are derivations of the kernel
the problem goes away.

    http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/

Cheers,


Ralph.