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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 pendorbound on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:48PM (1 child)
A small quibble: Loading ZFS into the kernel, even linking it directly into a compiled monolithic kernel IS NOT a GPL violation. Distributing the result of that linkage to someone else is a GPL violation. No Linux contributor has standing to come after you if you link ZFS on your own hardware nor load a loadable kernel module for it.
GPL is a distribution license. You can only violate it if you're giving a copy of GPL licensed code to someone else. (And distributing a kernel linked with CDDL ZFS code is no-question a violation.)
Fair Use is your "license" for working on your own systems. You can link in anything you like from anywhere. As long as you don't distribute it, you can never violate the GPL.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:02PM
If some kernel developer, or a dead kernel developer's estate were to bring a lawsuit over linking, it would still be ugly and expensive -- even if you win.
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