On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 21:27 +0000, WordPress wrote: > Adding a note from last week's meeting -- I think the consensus was that ZFS > and a custom kernel (we think that's required?) were not something the editors > felt we should strongly promote in Fedora, since it means the kernel taint > flag is set. Can this be rethought with another compression option? The kernel does not have to be recompiled, but a module (zfs.ko) does. The module, when loaded, does indeed taint the kernel. Here is the line that displays in my dmesg output: znvpair: module license CDDL taints kernel. There is a "zfs-fuse" package available in the Fedora repositories and a quick online search appears to show that it can be used to boot a zfs root ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-fuse/Pngazp3mALw). But the solution looks a bit too hackish for my taste. Here is an explanation of why zfs-fuse package is is allowed in Fedora, but zfs.ko is not: http://warpmech.com/?news=myth-busting-series-zfs-on-linux-has-license-problems Btrfs was mentioned as a possibility, but I am a little weary of it. It looks like RHEL is also deprecating it: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.4_release_notes/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-7.4_release_notes-deprecated_functionality It looks like there is a possibility that Oracle may someday change the ZFS license: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-ZFS-2017-Possibility My intention at the moment is to hold off on doing netboot pt. 5 and maybe revisit the issue if Oracle does update the ZFS license. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
