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Comment by zozbot234

15 days ago

> things like ZFS added

That's a big gotcha - ZFS is non-free so of course it cannot be part of Debian proper. Hopefully we'll get feature parity via Btrfs or Bcachefs at some point in the future.

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yjftsjthsd-h  15 days ago

> ZFS is non-free so of course it cannot be part of Debian proper

ZFS is under the CDDL which is a perfectly good free and open-source software license, just some people view it as incompatible with GPL (IANAL, but this is apparently somewhat controversial; see the wikipedia page) so Debian doesn't distribute ZFS .ko files for Linux in binary form. They do, however, have an official package for it[1], just using DKMS to compile it locally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/zfs-dkms

  • worthless-trash  14 days ago

    If some people see it as incompatible, its not perfectly good then, is it.

    • yjftsjthsd-h  14 days ago

      CDDL is a good license. GPLv2 is a good license. They happen to be (maybe) incompatible. That doesn't make either of them bad. I mean, would you argue that GPLv2 is bad because it's not compatible with CDDL?

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