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Something like FreeNAS with ZFS?

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oog

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I was wondering if there is something like FreeNAS but with ZFS as the filesystem. Would I need to go with OpenSolaris? Is there a NAS-ready distribution of OpenSolaris?
 
Originally posted by: drag
ZFS has been ported to FreeBSD for a while. (which is kinda unusual considuring that it's not bsd licensed, but oh well)

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS

I don't know if it's featured in any ready-made NAS stuff.
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FreeBSD doesn't have many problems with licenses that are non-BSD. I believe they consider their source tree to be GPL, but I could be wrong.
 
FreeBSD doesn't have many problems with licenses that are non-BSD.
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That's because the BSD license doesn't care about additional restrictions in other licenses so there's no way for it to conflict, the GPL says you can't place additional restrictions on the use, distribution, etc of the code or code it's linked with so licenses like the CDDL are incompatible with it.

I believe they consider their source tree to be GPL, but I could be wrong.
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The ZFS code is still under the CDDL according to the announcement sent to freebsd-current.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
FreeBSD doesn't have many problems with licenses that are non-BSD.
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That's because the BSD license doesn't care about additional restrictions in other licenses so there's no way for it to conflict, the GPL says you can't place additional restrictions on the use, distribution, etc of the code or code it's linked with so licenses like the CDDL are incompatible with it.
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OpenBSD is anti-GPL. FreeBSD is not. That has nothing to do with what the GPL is compatible with.

I believe they consider their source tree to be GPL, but I could be wrong.
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The ZFS code is still under the CDDL according to the announcement sent to freebsd-current.
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Is the ZFS code itself in the code tree?
 
OpenBSD is anti-GPL. FreeBSD is not. That has nothing to do with what the GPL is compatible with.
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Sure it does, the GPL is more restrictive than the BSD license so once you start including GPL'd code in a project you severly limit the license that other code in your tree can be released under. I'm sure there are developers who are anti-GPL for totally irrelevant reasons but the license interaction is the only one that really matters.

Is the ZFS code itself in the code tree?
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According to the drag's link to the FreeBSD wiki it's in -CURRENT and was ported from the OpenSolaris code and is still under the CDDL.
 
Yea, the only reason I found it was because of the top level cddl directory with Makefiles pointing me in the right direction.
 
I had a similar problem with some other keyword.

It's due to the forum code, they can't figure out how to seperate what your saying from internal code keywords or some such thing so they just block it out.
 
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