On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:15 AM, David Sommerseth
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> On 06/04/17 10:54, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native
>>> in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm
>>> not going that path for production environments.
>>
>> What do you mean by "native?"
>>
>> The upstream deb and rpm files use dkms (as well as kmod for RHEL and
>> clones) and Ubuntu ships zfs pre-compiled. This is "native" in my
>> book.
>>
>> I've used and am using zfs in production on Linux and it's good and stable.
>
> My meaning of "native" is that it is included in the upstream Linux
> kernel, not a side-loaded product/project/kernel module.

Thanks. I read a later email in which you said that.

zfs'll never be in-tree for licensing reasons.