Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:05:22
Message-Id: 52285740.8070901@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo by "Marc Stürmer"
1 On 2013-09-04 2:49 AM, Marc Stürmer <mail@×××××××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Well in my point of view it boils down to that: someone wants to use ZFS
3 > on Linux. Fine. This means you've got to be a good citizen and obey its
4 > license, of course.
5 >
6 > It is for those legal reasons that ZFS is not included into the Linux
7 > kernel mainline source tree. It is also for those reasons you got to
8 > compile it as a module.
9
10 One of the points made was that this is FUD, and that there is NO logel
11 reason that it cannot be included.
12
13 There is also the fact that it *could* be included, as long as it wasn't
14 provided directly in the kernel sources, but as an overlay/patch type
15 process, which could still be provided by the gentoo source repositories.