[Users] OpenVZ and ZFS excellent experience

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sun Jan 11 23:00:17 PST 2015


> License issues of ZFS.
> 
> License issues is not an critical because installing of ZFS is
> straightforward and do not require any deep integration to system or
> kernel and work on almost any kernel.

OpenZFS and zfsonline people claim that it is perfectly valid to ship
zfs binary kernel modules, see:

http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Talk:FAQ


> And we can call zfs tools (zpool, zfs) without any problems with CDDL
> license of ZFS. 

> But we can't link to libzfs and fortunately we do not
> need this.

You can link to libzfs. As example, see grub code. Grub is GPL and they link
with libzfs. Do I miss something?



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