Pawel Jakub Dawidek a ZFS körüli bonyodalmakról

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek

To: Gabor MICSKO
Subject: Re: Question about FreeBSD's ZFS implementation
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:50:20 +0200
 
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:00:24AM +0200, Gabor MICSKO wrote:
 
> Dear Pawel!
 
[...]
 
> I have some questions about ZFS.
>
> "Network Appliance Inc. today announced that it has filed a patent
> infringement lawsuit against Sun Microsystems Inc. seeking unspecified
> compensatory damages and an injunction that would prohibit Sun from
> developing or distributing products based on its ZFS file system
> technology."
>
> http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html
> http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling
> http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/litigoperation-.html
>
> Q: I (and my audience) would like to know if this lawsuit means any
> trouble for FreeBSD or FreeBSD's ZFS implementation?
 
FreeBSD's ZFS is a straight port of Sun's ZFS, so we would have them
same problems Solaris users would eventually have, but as far as I know
nothing has been decided yet.
 
> Q: What is your position on this lawsuit? Can you share your personal
> opinion with us?
 
I'm against software patents altogether. Other than that, no comments,
sorry.
 
> Q: Will we see ZFS in the upcoming FreeBSD 7?
 
Yes. This will be the version, which is currently in the HEAD branch.
I've a huge amount of changes (mostly functional and some performance
improvements) waiting in my perforce branch, but I'll wait with them
until after 7.0 is released, as we are quite happy with ZFS stability in
FreeBSD 7-CURRENT.