A question about ZFS built-in SMB

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Quartz <quartz at sneakertech.com> wrote:
>
>>> Oh ok. I was under the impression that Linux ZFS was basically a
>>> hack/port
>>> of the FreeBSD version due to licensing issues, and the FreeBSD version
>>> was
>>> itself a port of the illumos version.
>>>
>>
>> http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue
>>
>> There is no real licensing issue since ZFS can be compiled into a
>> loadable kernel module(s) on Linux (just as it is used in FreeBSD
>> anyway) and that avoids the clash between the two mutually
>> incompatible licenses.
>
>
> Did this change recently? Last time I looked was a few years ago and ZFS on
> Linux was still largely an awkward hack because what they had to do to work
> around the licensing issue. I heavily investigated the Debian/kFreeBSD
> project before just going with mainline FreeBSD.
>
>
>

As far as I understand the main issue was that the ZFS sources
couldn't be imported to the kernel source tree and built into a kernel
module with the other similar kernel modules. The solution was to
build the kernel module separately treating it as a 3rd party "binary
blob".

-Kimmo