Several years ago, the ZFS on Linux (ZoL) project successfully ported the Enterprise-grade ZFS file-system (originally developed by SUN Microsystems) to Linux. It was stable, safe and secure. In the ...
Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems – and now owned by Oracle – due to licensing issues. As ...
"ZFS is licensed under the CDDL, and the Linux kernel under the GPLv2-only. The project views that both of these are free software licenses, but they’re incompatible with each other," he wrote. "This ...