Re: Re: Pentoo-installer

On 11/01/13 10:01, Duncan wrote:

>  But a large
> company would be insane to touch zfs on Linux, as would any binary-
> distributing entity large enough to get on the legal radar, and that's
> apparently /exactly/ how Oracle wants to keep things, so here we are...

GREAT to KNOW! Sure I've read snippets all over the place, but you have 
just framed the current state (in truth) as I (many?) have not 
comprehended before. So I shall play with ZFS and ext4 for now, waiting 
on BTRFS to become more stable; using the pentoo-installer.


Another point of curiousity. If ZFS was forgone, which Pentoo does not 
offer in the pentoo-installer, and instead use ext4 for now, what would 
be the problems with Pentoo, especially if the install media was to 
include the sources (along with the binaries) within the liveDVD iso ?


And I did not intend to infer that Gentoo should do this, just some 
users on whatever  wiki, to first prove out the concept. That said,
having the wisdom of folks, steeped in these murky issues, does help 
others to understand and find work around for the userland folks.


Also, it seems curious that the last liveDVD was built on ZFSOnLinux;
curious to have you clear up that misconception I have on ZFS legalities
related to Gentoo. It's my current favorite liveDVD.

[1] livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-20121221.iso

James