Re: BTRFS in 2012?

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the issues on flash performance with small block size.
>
> (again off topic and unrelated to BTRFS and perhaps unrelated to linux)
>
> ZFS has a huge 5+ year head start on BTRFS in terms of deployment
> and stability testing that is still preventing common usage.
>
> This is the nature of filesystems: it takes years to deploy successfully.
>
> ZFS has been blocked for adoption because of licensing issues
> related to GPLv2. The licensing issue (afaik) has a loophole
> that permits ZFS to be installed if built on the end-user system,
> but the binaries cannot be distributed by a linux vendor.
>
> IANAL and all the usual disclaimers.
>
> But there is an engineering solution to target the loophole
> in the licensing that might permit ZFS to be added as a
> "feature" in 2012.
>
> Yes I'm saying dkms (or equivalent) and EULA in the installer
> and a build tool that addresses the licensing obstacles to
> using ZFS on Linux.
>
>        Any interest in ZFS in 2012?
>
> +1 from me (but I fully expect to be outvoted by GPL fanatics: oh well)
>
> 73 de Jeff

I would love to see ZFS, but realistically, how would it work to use
it for the root filesystem? I would have to install it, then create a
remaster and install that?