Linus: Don't Use ZFS
Here&#x27;s his reasoning:<p>&quot;honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it&#x27;s ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL&#x27;d.<p>Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that&#x27;s their decision. But considering Oracle&#x27;s litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there&#x27;s no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.<p>And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle&#x27;s interface copyright suits (see Java), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any real licensing win either.&quot;