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Re: ext3cow FS?



 On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 16:08 -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> >  It seems likely that you'll be waiting a long time. ZFS is under 
> >  the CDDL, which is highly non-GPL compatible, and Sun's patents 
> >  suggest that they don't want anyone reverse-engineering it, 
> >  either. Nor do I think Sun management has much of a soft spot 
> >  for Linux these days... 
> 
> Perhaps ;-/  You can already use ZFS on Linux via FUSE, but I would 
> hope that someone will want it bad enough to reimplement it.  You can 
> get around the reversing-to-implementation problem using the Chinese 
> Wall methodology, so I don't see why that would be a problem... 


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