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Re: ext3cow FS?



 On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:10:14AM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> I'll just wait for ZFS on Linux, but it's nice to know ext3cow is an 
> option too :-) 

It seems likely that you'll be waiting a long time. ZFS is under 
the CDDL, which is highly non-GPL compatible, and Sun's patents 
suggest that they don't want anyone reverse-engineering it, 
either. Nor do I think Sun management has much of a soft spot 
for Linux these days... 

-dsr- 

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