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user-inactivated · 3928 days ago · link · · parent · post: Okay, Hubski, talk me out of $2k worth of Sinology and WD Reds.
The GPL is incompatible with Sun's license, so it has to live outside the kernel. There's a FUSE implementation, and a recent loadable kernel module I haven't played with, but whether either is installed out of the box depends on your distro. The kernel module is almost surely the better choice now that it exists.
There are a couple of OsX implementations as well, OpenZFS and Zevo.
I have no idea about the state of ZFS on Windows.WTF is up with ZFS, by the way? Seems like all the little NAS boxes want to run it, but OS X, Win and most flavors of Linux don't speak it at all. Thus my adventures in knoppix, which were the opposite of fun and empowering.