[Users] OpenVZ and ZFS excellent experience

Pavel Odintsov pavel.odintsov at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 15:08:22 PST 2015


Hello!

I can't find any info about linking :(

But I found big article from ZoL team:
http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue

Will be fine if OpenVZ command can add ZFS into standard shipment :)

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:
>> 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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Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov


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