On Mon, June 1, 2015 11:06 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote:
I think that you need to simplify #1 to:
1: Red Hat doesn't ship ZFS
As that is really all that matters and so that people can't argue that you are making a statement of knowledge about what/why Red Hat's lawyers have decided. It does not matter on these lists WHY they don't ship it, just that they don't.
According to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/79633 :
Hm... this best answer is meant for RedHat Enterprise subscribers' eyes only...
Even though my University has a subscription, I'm sort of reluctant to use it just to read this answer. In a couple of non-confidential words, what is the answer?
Valeri
Root Cause
ZFS is not included in the upstream Linux kernel. Red Hat applies an "upstream first" policy for kernel modules (including filesystems). Without upstream presence, ZFS will not be provided nor supported by Red Hat.
There's a lot of "I Am not a lawyer, but..." discussion in the comments, but I think this is the best answer from Red Hat as to why they don't ship ZFS.
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