Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

[Horst H. von Brand]

Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> ZFS uses 'dnodes'. The dnodes are allocated on demand from your
> available space so running out of [di]nodes is impossible.
> 
> Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with
> Solaris... I think linux should do the same...

This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made
filesystems.

Are you volunteering? You'd probably need a friend in Solaris-land who
passes you information on how things are done, and copies of filessytems to
take apart, and so on. 

First question is if there are any restrictions (patent or otherwise) on
doing this, just copying is out of the question due to (unfortunate)
licence on Sun's part.
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