[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 15:19:34 CDT 2006


Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>> Linux will probably get ZFS.  It's kind of a filesystem whore anyway.
> 
> ZFS under FUSE/Linux is a Google SoC 2006 project.
> 
> http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE
> http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
> 
> The general consensus among the Linux and BSD projects (that I've
> seen) is that the CDDL license Sun has released it under is too
> restrictive to allow it to be brought in as a native filesystem, but
> it may be usable as-is with some kind of API translation layer (FUSE,
> LKM wrapper, etc).

I'm not familiar with ZFS.  What does it give you besides giant 
filesystem/file sizes?  Does it have metadata/data journaling?  Verzioning?

How hard is it to port?

Peace...  Sridhar



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