Porting ZFS looks like it would be a fun project, and a lot less effort
than starting from scratch.  (Plus, having this filesystem in common
with Solaris is likely to be useful in its own right.)

But I don't know about the CDDL.  Since we would certainly be modifying
the actual CDDL source files it seems to have the source code
redistribution requirement as with GPL, and I'm not sure that having
this requirement with kernel files is a good idea.  (At least it isn't
viral like the GPL is, though.)

It seems like this might a good time for the foundation to make a
statement about inclusion of CDDL code in NetBSD, seeing as there is now
a large base of code distributed under those terms in the form of
OpenSolaris.

If a straight "port" can't be done, maybe someone can start looking at
the code and implement ZFS in a cleanroom approach.

    -- Garrett

> Sean Davis wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:04:10PM -0500, Michael wrote:
>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >>>Are there any plans to write a journaling filesystem for NetBSD?
> >>
> >>LFS comes to mind. Supposedly it's usable these days ( in -current ) -
> >>no idea if it's usable on half a terabyte though.
>
>
> >Does LFS still have problems when a partition becomes nearly full? I
> haven't
> >talked to Konrad in a long time, nor have I played with LFS in a long
> time,
> >and then it was on a small disk (well, small by today's standards; I
> believe
> >it was a 20GB.)
>
> >Performance from LFS was outstanding, but I never pushed the disk beyond,
> >say, 60% capacity, and ISTR hearing of troubles with lfs_cleanerd on
> disks
> >that were approaching full capacity.
>
>
> I thing that ,LFS is loging filesystem so it ha good performance when
> you write data on it ,but horibble when you want read them.
>
>
> >>>Is anyone working on such a thing?
> >>
> >>Sun released the ZFS source, at least one developer has been playing
> >>with it. The license seems to be compatible enough but I'm not exactly a
> >>lawyer.
>
>
> >I would be more than happy to give [that developer] root access to a test
> >machine to play with ZFS, to assess its viability. Can you relay that
> >message for me? :)
>
> >In the meantime, I shall play with LFS on this 15GB deathstar I've
> got that
> >I've been meaning to wipe in any case.
>
> >-Sean
>
> I thing that NetBSD users can make some donations to NetBSD foundation
> for writing new journalig filesystem or porting new ZFS to NetBSD.
>
>
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