Re: porting ZFS

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:21:23AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:21:48PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> > 1.  With NetBSD acting as an ISCSI target, giving NetBSD the  
> > ability to
> > provide large amounts of storage  to serve via that mechanism would  
> > be very
> > useful.
>
> That's much better served by the LVM work, IMO.

I don't understand why a logical volume manager that requires a pile of
GPLed code for practical use is a better alternative for this than  
zpool.

Heart of LVM is device-mapper and not userland gpl code we can write our
own tools if we can't use gpl one. We can use both linux and NetBSD LVM
together on different PV/VG/LV's (like linux use lvm1 and lvm2 volumes).

We already have GPL code in a base system and it is not problem for us.
To get LVM working we need one library(libdevmapper) and one tool(lvm).
It is not too much I think.

Regards

Adam.