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Old 04-09-2007, 02:03 PM   #1
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ZFS support in FreeBSD


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I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD
operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be
available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...il/070544.html
 
Old 06-22-2007, 08:31 AM   #2
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Hi, can you give link or simple brief comparing UFS & ZFS
is that same with ext2 and ext3 ?

btw for your info i have installed solaris 10 11/06 but did
not found where to activate the ZFS

thanks
 
Old 06-22-2007, 10:54 AM   #3
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Hi, can you give link or simple brief comparing UFS & ZFS
is that same with ext2 and ext3
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ZFS is very different from any other file system ever made, its truely innovative and revolutionary.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs

Demo videos from Sun:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commun...F0B4AB3A34CA13
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commun...emos/selfheal/
 
Old 06-23-2007, 01:08 AM   #4
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is this userland ZFS or native support?
 
Old 06-23-2007, 01:11 AM   #5
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Would you recommend ZFS for a file server, workstation, compute server?
 
Old 06-23-2007, 03:08 AM   #6
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I thinking if ZFS filesystem will enable me to put my backup
100 Gb to 10Gb hardisk

btw i reading some link given, erm a lot of wonderful function
i will wait for solaris 11 release for my sparc fire.

i like solaris is because i one of old solaris ultrasparc 10 connected with sun storEDGE D1000, i dont know how old already this
storage machine work well with solaris 10 new
 
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is this userland ZFS or native support?
It is native (kernel) support. Userland only support has just be announced for Linux (FUSE).
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Would you recommend ZFS for a file server, workstation, compute server?
I would recommend ZFS for any use provided it is technically possible.
 
Old 06-23-2007, 07:35 AM   #8
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How many patents have sun opened for this filesystem?
 
Old 06-24-2007, 03:42 AM   #9
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I believe the number of patents is 56.
That doesn't hurt its use in FreeBSD and other O/Ses given the CDDL license is preserved.

From http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/are...patents_useful

We will *never* (yes, I said *never*) sue anyone who uses our ZFS codebase and follows the terms of the license: they publish their improvements, propagate the license, and not sue anyone else who uses the ZFS codebase. And look at the innovation not only with ZFS in OpenSolaris, but its adoption by Mac OS X and BSD.
 
Old 06-24-2007, 04:30 AM   #10
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That doesn't hurt its use in FreeBSD and other O/Ses given the CDDL license is preserved.
Or even the GPLv3...
Its probably not going to happen...but its been discussed by Jonathan Schwartz
 
Old 06-24-2007, 08:23 AM   #11
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If Solaris goes over to the GPL3, what position would apple and freeBSD be in, i doubt the BSD license is compatible with the GPL3, so would that not cause licensing problems for freeBSD? Im still in limbo about GPL->BSD ports, could someone maybe explain?
 
Old 06-24-2007, 04:07 PM   #12
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If Solaris goes the GPLv3 way, that would certainly be as a dual license along the CDDL so there should be no clash with the BSD license.
 
Old 06-24-2007, 06:16 PM   #13
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If Solaris goes the GPLv3 way, that would certainly be as a dual license along the CDDL so there should be no clash with the BSD license.
Indeed, I think that Mr. Schwartz mentioned something to that effect in his blog. Makes sense...
 
Old 06-24-2007, 11:14 PM   #14
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ZFS no fuse linux

well, this is all well and good - i see why kernel.org can't put out native zfs for the interim, but that shouldn't be the end of it - has anyone been developing zfs kernel support that you could compile into a kernel for zfs? The fact that the gpl is inconsistent with sun is infinging on my freedom to compute - seems contradictory to Stallman's philosophy for GNU. So anyway - does anyone know of anyone who is developing such a source code?
 
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The fact that the gpl is inconsistent with sun is infinging on my freedom to compute
The GPL isn't inconsistent with Sun. Sun is already releasing code under the GPL, including Java and the LGPL, OpenOffice.
The CDDL make no restriction on license mixing so if your freedom is infringed, the issue is on the GPL side.
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- seems contradictory to Stallman's philosophy for GNU.
The CDDL is OSI compliant.
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So anyway - does anyone know of anyone who is developing such a source code?
No, but a read-only driver wouldn't be that hard, given the fact OpenSolaris has released code allowing to mount, open and read ZFS under the GPLv2 in its grub extensions.

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