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Am 02.09.2013 10:47, schrieb Joerg Schilling: |
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> Solaris is dynamic from the beginning: |
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Well in my point of view it boils down to that: someone wants to use ZFS |
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on Linux. Fine. This means you've got to be a good citizen and obey its |
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license, of course. |
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It is for those legal reasons that ZFS is not included into the Linux |
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kernel mainline source tree. It is also for those reasons you got to |
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compile it as a module. |
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So somebody wants it being static into his kernel, modules being |
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disabled on his machine because of security concerns. Unless he is going |
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to do that stuff himself this is unlikely to ever happen. |
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So it boils down to those possible solutions: |
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a) writing that stuff himself (unlikely to happen), |
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b) just using the module and going to be happy (also unlikely to happen |
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as it seems), |
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c) choosing another, native file system like Btrfs (which is still yet |
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not production ready as a fast moving target) or going with something |
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like XFS or Ext4 (and LVM), |
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or the most natural choice then, which is |
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d) choosing an operating system, which supports ZFS out of the box like |
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FreeBSD and forget about all the rest of the problems. |
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I would go for d and forget about all of the rest of the problems. |
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FreeBSD has been around long enough, and is stable and mature enough for |
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most anything you can throw at and it is a nice, clean, well structured |
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system anyway. |
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There's also Gentoo/FreeBSD around, but personally I would use the |
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native ports system instead. |
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