ZFS for the masses

[Mlovelace]

Canonical is shipping Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ZFS baked into the kernel. Maybe ZFS will get more development when the huge linux community starts using it regularly (goodbye lvm+xfs/ext4). Hmm, maybe RHEL will follow suit too.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-is-fs-for-containers-in-ubuntu-1604.html?m=1

 

[Mirfster]

What do you mean by "for the masses"? :P Wondering what licensing they will try to use as well, since isn't most of Canonical's GPL v2 or v3?

 

[Mlovelace]

I was wondering about the licensing too. That's why it hasn't been included in the Linux kernel in the past.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

licensing

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/18/zfs-licensing-and-linux/

 

[Mirfster]

Still looks like a cluster(insert bad word here) to me...

 

[anodos]

Ubuntu restricted extras? Canonical has always been willing to hit up grey areas when it helped usability or end-user adoption.

 

[Mlovelace]

I see it as a welcome addition. The zfs on Linux guys maintained a ppa but it's great being included in the kernel. I'm hoping SLES and RHEL will now too.

 

[Yatti420]

Woohoo.. Aslong as ubuntu doesn't try and destroy my pool when(or if) it ever mounts it i'll be very happy :)

 

[SirMaster]

I see it as a welcome addition. The zfs on Linux guys maintained a ppa but it's great being included in the kernel. I'm hoping SLES and RHEL will now too.

It's not being included in the Kernel. Licensing prevents this. It will included as a kernel module same as it's always been done on Linux.

It's not really a new thing. Proxmox (which is a modified Debian distro) has come with ZFS out of the box for awhile now as a kernel module and even lets you to create and install the root OS to a zpool from the GUI installer wizard.

 

[Mlovelace]

It's not being included in the Kernel. Licensing prevents this.

Did you read the article?

 

[SirMaster]

Did you read the article?

Yes...

Did you?

Code:

What does "support" mean?
You'll find zfs.ko automatically built and installed on your Ubuntu systems.  No more DKMS-built modules!
$ locate zfs.ko
/lib/modules/4.4.0-4-generic/kernel/zfs/zfs/zfs.ko
You'll see the module loaded automatically if you use it.

zfs.ko is the kernel module... If it was included in the Linux kernel it would not use /lib/modules at all or require the zfs.ko kernel module...

I assure you that nobody is baking zfs into the kernel.

 

[Mlovelace]

Yes...

Did you?

I apologize for my snarkiness, you're absolutely right (though you knew that) I didn't get that it was a kernel module when I first read it. I thought it was in the kernel which is why I didn't get how the licensing worked.

Sorry for being snippy.

 

[SirMaster]

I apologize for my snarkiness, you're absolutely right (though you knew that) I didn't get that it was a kernel module when I first read it. I thought it was in the kernel which is why I didn't get how the licensing worked.

Sorry for being snippy.

No worries man. ZoL is my primary platform that I've used for 3 years now and I follow development pretty closely.