Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4109FBC98 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 07:39:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60882-10 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 07:39:55 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: delayed 01:39:21.315694 by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from ow-mustang.objectware.no (unknown [193.19.64.142]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3DB9FBCAC for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 07:39:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ow-mustang.objectware.no (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l48AaADo017459 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 12:36:11 +0200 Message-ID: <464050F5.3070802@inamo.no> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 12:29:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trygve_Laugst=F8l?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <463FFF76.5070108@gmail.com> <464039AD.40407@inamo.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/105 X-Sequence-Number: 24495 david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Trygve Laugstøl wrote: > >>> currently ZFS is only available on Solaris, parts of it have been >>> released >>> under GPLv2, but it doesn't look like enough of it to be ported to >>> Linux >>> (enough was released for grub to be able to access it read-only, but >>> not >>> the full filesystem). there are also patent concerns that are >>> preventing >>> any porting to Linux. >> >> This is not entirely correct. ZFS is only under the CDDL license and >> it has been ported to FreeBSD. >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/026922.html >> > I wonder how they handled the license issues? I thought that if you > combined stuff that was BSD licensed with stuff with a more restrictive > license the result was under the more restrictive license. thanks for > the info. The CDDL is not a restrictive license like GPL, it is based on the MIT license so it can be used with BSD stuff without problems. There are lots of discussion going on (read: flamewars) on the opensolaris lists about how it can/should it/will it be integrated into linux. > here's a link about the GPLv2 stuff for zfs > > http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists That title is fairly misleading as it's only some read-only bits to be able to boot off ZFS with grub. -- Trygve