[elrepo] zfs module

[Farkas Levente]

On 04/19/2011 05:15 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sorry for a long delay. After having read it, we still cannot figure
> out whether the license is compatible with our distribution policies.
> 
>>> 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...
> 
> Suppose, we find no issue with the license and decide to provide the
> packages, we would like to have someone build/maintain them. Levente,
> are you willing to take on this job?

unfortunately in the next couple of weeks i don't have too much time
(deadlines, rhel-6.1 rebuild and still has a few proprietary kmods which
can't be compiled or not running properly on el6). and my vacation to
bali already shifted by 2 weeks:-(
on the other hand we use different type of kmods we use one common
kmodtool for both el5/6 and for all kmods this's just a little modified
version of the original kmodtool in redhat-rpm-config (which can be
installed on both system) and in this was the automated buildsys can
build for el5 and el6 from the same source and spec for all arch which
is a imho cleaner, more easier to maintain. what's more this's the only
way to make automated daily build for our testers without human
interaction (since when i have to do something manually i used to made
mistakes:-().


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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"