installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[gene heskett]

On 7/29/25 08:35, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 02:24, gene heskett<gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
>> I did, about a year ago as I was considering setting up amanda as a
>> backup solution, running on armbian, currently based on ubuntu, but I
>> made the mistake of reading the ZFS license.  Nuff said.
That made it clear that it was at the mercy of whatever future changes 
in the license might be made, possibly leading to a big clash with the 
general idea of FOSS. As you know by now, I don't always think inside 
that famous box. And I sure as hell don't want that box to trap me in an 
ever smaller box. This machine is my main machine, does it all, whereas 
the other 7 or 8 are more specialized, running linuxcnc or klipper to 
drive metal working machinery, or 3d printers.
> All right. What was the problem? I am curious. OpenZFS is 100% FOSS.
> The only problem is that it's not GPL.
I'm still interested Liam, and this amanda project is still in the last 
of its hdwe build, initial smoke test to see if my fans are big enough 
later this week.  URL to this OpenZFS site, so I can read it myself?  It 
sounds like my google-foo must have miss-guided me and I wasn't reading 
the license I thought I was.

I also extend my wishes that your personal situation has improved.
>> This would be welcome news indeed. But then I'd have to live in an RH
>> lab cage.
>> No. Stratis is RH, but Stratis is also GPL. Bcachefs is nothing to do
>> with RH; the developer works for Oracle I think.
I am not familiar with either of those, and Stratis is likely locked 
behind  the RH per seat license fees. URL's to both might be educational 
reading.
What I want to do, with whatever file system I use, is combine 5 ea, 
3.6T SSD drives into one big 15T LVM like system.  How that is actually 
partitioned is Yet T.B.D.

[...] Take care of #1 Liam.  I'm now past my "use by date" by quite a 
bit, my next b-day, if I get there will be the 91st.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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