[elrepo] zfs module

[Farkas Levente]

On 04/06/2011 05:22 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:
>> hi,
>> as zfs is not gpl it can't be added to the upstream kernel, but can be
>> compiles as a kernel module:
>> http://zfsonlinux.org/
>> os imho it's best place would be elrepo, would it be useful to add spl
>> and zfs to elrepo?
>> regards.
> 
> Hi Levente,
> 
> First, we would need to look into their license. While ELRepo can
> provide non-GPL packages, they have to be freely distributable.

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue
so it's free.

> Second, zfs is still at 0.x . Do you think it is stable enough?  What
> is your experience / view on this?

i don't have experience, but i'm sure many people would like to test it
and it'd be much easier if kmods and userspace would be available, since
most user can't or wouldn't like to build it himself.
and everybody can decided to use it or not...

-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"