Compressed partition or block device?

[Tyler Aviss]

reminds me of the old "doublespace" days...
On Jul 9, 2012 7:58 PM, "Anthony de Boer" <adb-SACILpcuo74 at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Also the ZFS lincese isn't compatible with the GPL, and hence while you
> > can play with ZFS on your own system, you can't distribute it.
>
> Well, you _can_ if your system is running FreeBSD, or whatever
> OpenSolaris is calling itself this week, but that starts getting
> off-topic for a Linux list.
>
> But then a ZFS+NFS storage box can sit behind a workstation or
> application server running Linux, or you can run a Linux virtual on one
> of those systems (Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ought to fit in a FreeBSD jail).
>
> And the GPL isn't the only license with interesting teeth; apparently
> Oracle can't use the latest ZFS and other Solaris stuff from the free
> community because of CDDL issues.
>
> I like being able to snapshot all my stuff in only a few seconds!
>
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