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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZFS-Standard-Plans
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2015-October/000370.html
Getting ZFS into a mainline distro is fantastic. I am quite excited.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2015-October/000370.html
From the comments:If it's ZFS you're after, it will be included in Ubuntu as standard in due course. Mark
That said, there is no legal issue preventing the sources from being combined because neither the CDDL nor the GPL place restrictions on aggregations of source code, which is what putting ZFS into the same tree as Linux would be. Binary modules built from such a tree could be distributed with the kernel's GPL modules under what the GPL considers to be an aggregate. These concepts have passed legal review by many parties.
As for actually putting ZFS into Linus' tree (mainline), neither Linus nor the ZoL developers are fans of the idea. Being tightly coupled to the kernel would mean bug reports from ancient versions on enterprise systems because backporting is up to the distribution developers and they do not do it very often. That is a situation that the ZoL project would prefer to avoid. I expect that we will be able to avoid this in Ubuntu through micro-releases under the Stable Release Update policy:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
As for Linus, he is not interested in having CDDL code in his tree, which is okay and works out better for everyone in this instance.
Getting ZFS into a mainline distro is fantastic. I am quite excited.