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 : > 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. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>