Re: ext3cow FS?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>  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... 

Perhaps ;-/  You can already use ZFS on Linux via FUSE, but I would 
hope that someone will want it bad enough to reimplement it.  You can 
get around the reversing-to-implementation problem using the Chinese 
Wall methodology, so I don't see why that would be a problem... 
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Kristian Erik Hermansen 
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