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John Paul Wohlscheid over at It's FOSS takes a look at the ZFS file system and its capabilities. He mainly covers OpenZFS which is the fork made since Oracle bought and shut down Solaris which was the original host of ZFS. It features pooled storage with RAID-like capabilities, copy-on-write with snapshots, data integrity verification and automatic repair, and it can handle files up to 16 exabytes in size, with file systems of up to 256 quadrillion zettabytes in size should you have enough electricity to pull that off. Because it started development under a deliberately incompatible license, ZFS cannot be directly integrated in Linux. However, several distros work around that and provide packages for it. It has been ported to FreeBSD since 2008.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:25PM
I think it's the owner of a GPL licensed copyright work that you must worry about.
Are there any kernel contributors who would sue because their work is licensed under the GPL, and therefore anything linked with it must, as per the GPL, also be licensed under the GPL. ("viral license")
Oracle might not care. But a kernel dev would seem to have a technically legitimate claim to assert -- however picky and petty I might think it might be.
One problem, as I understand it, with kernel licensing is that nobody knows who all of the contributors are. And some are dead, and therefore their copyright ownership would go to their estate, and who knows who might control that. Said differently, it is probably impossible to ever change the license of the kernel, or to get everyone to stipulate to some additional clause. (Example: Java JDK licensed under GPL + Classpath Exception to the GPL. That exception means that running your code on Java as a platform does not bring your code under the scope of the GPL, but any modification or addition to the java platform must be under the GPL license.)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.