You may begin to think I'm a fanatic, but I am just reading http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/232 And Linus says "maybe ZFS is worthwhile enough that I'm willing to go to the effort of trying to relicense the kernel." High praise indeed. Schwartz replies http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/one_plus_one_is_fifty here. Tom