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The FreeNAS project had discussed whether the free storage systems should use BSD or Linux in the future. The result is that both variants will now be available.
The open source software for network attached storage (NAS) runs on Intel and AMD64 processor and supports protocols such as Samba, FTP, NFS, AFP, rsync and iSCSI. For a base operating system FreeNAS uses M0n0wall, which itself is based on FreeBSD. That means it can use the ZFS filesystem, which is compatible with the BSD license.
As rumors in the FreeNAS forum emerged that the software will be developed under Debian GNU/Linux in the future, some participants feared the loss of the powerful ZFS, which for licensing reasons can't be included in the GPL-licensed Linux kernel.
OpenMediaVault promises to be a very useful NAS. FreeNAS was good, but Volker plans to make OMV even better.
Not zfs, Btrfs
Fulano de tal
Dec 09, 2009 4:55pm GMT
Why so much noise with ZFS? Linux has Btrfs, which has a more solid fundation than zfs (http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/) and it's maturing and becoming stable - i'm using it as my root filesystem for the past two weeks and I haven't had any problems.
zfs
steve
Dec 09, 2009 10:57am GMT
I want zfs, i hope oracle will change the license to be compatible with the linux kernel.. it will give a lot of power to linux, of course until M$ catches up - which wont be long - we will soon be praising M$'s new filesystem...it will have all the features of zfs. i dont doubt.
BSD license
Britta Wuelfing
Dec 09, 2009 10:18am GMT
Thanks for the alert, originally the author wrote "compatible with BSD license", which has been corrected now.
ZFS
Dan Dart
Dec 09, 2009 1:04am GMT
ZFS is CDDL, which is not compatible with GPL, but is with BSD. It's not BSD licensed as you say, otherwise Linux would be able to use it.
Comments
CoreNAS
KarelZwart Dec 30, 2009 11:59pm GMT
The intermediate project leading up to OpenMediaVault is called CoreNAS:http://www.corenas.org
<a href="http://www.corenas.org">www.corenas.org<a>
OpenMediaVault promises to be a very useful NAS. FreeNAS was good, but Volker plans to make OMV even better.
Not zfs, Btrfs
Fulano de tal Dec 09, 2009 4:55pm GMT
Why so much noise with ZFS? Linux has Btrfs, which has a more solid fundation than zfs (http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/) and it's maturing and becoming stable - i'm using it as my root filesystem for the past two weeks and I haven't had any problems.zfs
steve Dec 09, 2009 10:57am GMT
I want zfs, i hope oracle will change the license to be compatible with the linux kernel.. it will give a lot of power to linux, of course until M$ catches up - which wont be long - we will soon be praising M$'s new filesystem...it will have all the features of zfs. i dont doubt.BSD license
Britta Wuelfing Dec 09, 2009 10:18am GMT
Thanks for the alert, originally the author wrote "compatible with BSD license", which has been corrected now.ZFS
Dan Dart Dec 09, 2009 1:04am GMT
ZFS is CDDL, which is not compatible with GPL, but is with BSD. It's not BSD licensed as you say, otherwise Linux would be able to use it.Cheers