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Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> > > btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for |
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> > > everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with |
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> > > r4+compression. |
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> > Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no chance that this |
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> > filestem will become popular on many OS platforms. |
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> btrfs is under GPL... |
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Correct, and this is the reason why it cannot appear on other platforms. |
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The problem with the GPL is that it tries to prevent collaboration between |
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different license camps. The GPL is an asymmetric license that allows "other |
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code" to be used by GPLd code (this is why ZFS being under CDDL is no problem |
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for a linux integration), but it does not allow other code (even code unter an |
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approved OpenSource license) to use GPLd code. |
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It ZFS was under GPL, it did not appear on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. |
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What I expect from a promising new filesystem is that is may be integrated in a |
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large variety of Platforms. |
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Note that I am a supporter of collaboration in OSS and that it is important for |
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me to write software in a highly portable way so anybody may use it.... |
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I do not like the camp mentality. |
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Jörg |
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schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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