CDDL+GPL and stuff

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:42, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > ZFS is complex so this would be a huge amount of work.
>
> Oh yes, this is a pretty big technical issue - the new code will need to
> mature before it becomes usable in "production" environments. There will
> likely be bug and mis-interpretations at first, wreaking all kinds of
> havoc.
>
> > 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
>
> I think you meant "user space programs are NOT derivations of the kernel"
> :)
>
> Yes, I know about this implementation. From what I hear, the FUSE
> implementation is pretty slow and doesn't make it possible to switch to
> ZFS entirely (i.e. you won't be able to boot into Linux off ZFS).

Well, depending on your definition of boot. :)  Yes, you can have your / on 
FUSE, as long as your /boot partition is 
Ext3/XFS/Something-else-known-to-grub-or-lilo, and have the FUSE modules in 
your initramfs.  BUT, as was mentioned, this would be SLOOOOOOOOW.  So, as 
with many things in the computer science world, it's possible, but not 
practical.

j

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