ZFS On Linux Looks Like It Will Soon Have Native Encryption Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ZFS On Linux Looks Like It Will Soon Have Native Encryption Support

The ZFS file-system upstream has offered native encryption support but unfortunately it came after ZFS was closed up by Oracle. The Illumos folks have been working on ZFS encryption while it looks like soon there will finally be encryption support available for ZFS On Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-Encryption-Coming

[justmy2cents]

did something change with ZFS license? seeing it got inclusion in debian as well

[OneTimeShot]

did something change with ZFS license? seeing it got inclusion in debian as well

No - apparently Oracle are so keen for their copyright code to be included in Linux that their license is no longer just GPL incompatible, but now completely proprietary. In case people forget, Sun saw Linux as a competitor to Solaris, and explicitly stated "thou shalt not have ZFS in Linux, please" when they made it Open Source.

[shmerl]

Please use correct name - OpenZFS. It's not ZFS anymore.

[johnc]

In case people forget, Sun saw Linux as a competitor to Solaris, and explicitly stated "thou shalt not have ZFS in Linux, please" when they made it Open Source.

Don't worry, we haven't forgotten. Since somebody always reminds us in every ZFS thread.

[bulletxt]

What I'm not really understanding here is, why is there so much development on ZFS for Linux if we have Btrfs? What is btrfs currently lacking that makes such development worth the hassle? Or is Btrfs actually becoming more smoke than meat?

[johnc]

What I'm not really understanding here is, why is there so much development on ZFS for Linux if we have Btrfs? What is btrfs currently lacking that makes such development worth the hassle? Or is Btrfs actually becoming more smoke than meat?

ZFS on Linux is benefiting from the entire OpenZFS project, which runs across a variety of platforms and has a decent number of developers contributing to it.

Another bonus is that ZOL is its own standalone project so devs don't have to deal with all the various Linux kernel politics.

[bulletxt]

ZFS on Linux is benefiting from the entire OpenZFS project, which runs across a variety of platforms and has a decent number of developers contributing to it.

Another bonus is that ZOL is its own standalone project so devs don't have to deal with all the various Linux kernel politics.

Is it safe to say that OpenZfs is actually more open than Btrfs development? Something like mariadb / mysq ?

[johnc]

Is it safe to say that OpenZfs is actually more open than Btrfs development? Something like mariadb / mysq ?

I don't think it's any more or less open. I do think there are more resources devoted to OpenZFS than to btrfs at this time.

[unixfan2001]

No - apparently Oracle are so keen for their copyright code to be included in Linux that their license is no longer just GPL incompatible, but now completely proprietary. In case people forget, Sun saw Linux as a competitor to Solaris, and explicitly stated "thou shalt not have ZFS in Linux, please" when they made it Open Source.

Unsubstantiated FUD is unsubstantiated.