zfs

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Toby Kelsey">

> The Opensolaris ZFS filesystem looks interesting
> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/).
> 
> Is there any possibliity that Debian/Ubuntu will port it, or is the CDDL
> unacceptable or incompatible?

The CDDL is a good license [1], but it is not compatible with the GPL. So,
it could not be ported and put directly in the Linux kernel, but hey, might
be a good opportunity to create a (decent) user space filesystem. :-)

- Jeff

[1] It's basically a genericised MPL.

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