Re: [Hampshire] ZFS or equivalent available for Linux?

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Author: Damian Lajos Brasher
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ZFS or equivalent available for Linux?
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:51 +0000, Samuel Penn wrote:

> OpenBSD is even more against binary only packages than Linux is
> (painting both projects with very broad brush strokes). Theo de Raadt
> is very vocally against binary blobs, possibly in part because
> they always get written for Linux rather than OpenBSD but mostly
> because he does want to provide a distribution that is as open
> as possible. Blobs were the theme of OpenBSD 3.9 song:
>


The reasons for Sun not releasing a GPL'd version are narrowing rapidly
hence, I suspect, the reason for talk by Sun to GPL ZFS (as noted by
David).


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