[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and ZFS

'Andreas Dilger' adilger at sun.com
Sun May 10 23:43:43 PDT 2009


On May 11, 2009  09:15 +0300, Mertol Ozyoney wrote:
> Is there any update on the status of ZFS being integrated in to lustre?

Work is underway, but we don't have a hard release date yet.  As soon
as it is ready.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:05 AM
> To: Mag Gam
> Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre and ZFS
> 
> On Apr 17, 2009  08:15 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> > By looking at some slides on the wiki I noticed there is a lot of
> > activity for using zfs as the underlying file system for Lustre on
> > Linux which is great. But, I was under the impression ZFS or its ideas
> > would never be ported to Linux because of license compatibility issues
> > (CDDL and GPL).  My question is, in the future is Lustre going to
> > offer binary copies (or just zfs-ldisk) of its filesystem?
> 
> The ZFS code is available and completely open source, so you shouldn't
> confuse the CDDL vs. GPL licensing issues with binary, proprietary,
> or closed source software.
> 
> While the final release license for the ZFS is not resolved, it is
> definitely being implemented for Linux in the kernel.  For Lustre
> we are only primarily concerned with a subset of the ZFS functionality,
> called the Data Management Unit (DMU) and will not be implementing
> the full ZFS filesystem for Linux at this time.
> 
> > Sorry if this is a silly question
> 
> This is actually the main question that people ask about ZFS.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.




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