Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

Brett Glass brett at lariat.net
Mon Sep 26 23:09:35 UTC 2011


At 04:38 PM 9/26/2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

>There was also general sentiment that the rise of ZFS would allow 
>just this sort of fine-grained partitioning, which is a huge 
>advantage of its ability to create datasets on the fly.  This 
>perception that ZFS is most of the future probably contributed to 
>the lack of strong opinions regarding the default UFS partition scheme.

Unfortunately, because ZFS is licensed under a viral license (not 
the GPL, but nonetheless one that isn't compatible with the BSD 
philosophy), I wouldn't want to see this happen. I'd rather see 
Hammer backported from Dragonfly.

--Brett



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