Bug 1211549

Summary: Incorrect statement about ZFS in Storage Administration Guide
Product: [Non-product-specific documentation] Documentation Reporter: Roger Whittaker <roger.whittaker>
Component: SLE FamilyAssignee: Jana Halackova <jsindelarova>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Tanja Roth <taroth>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: eduardo.minguez, mark.harvey
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
Whiteboard: https://jira.suse.com/browse/DOCTEAM-1004
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Description Roger Whittaker 2023-05-19 09:10:48 UTC 
https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-filesystems.html

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1.8 OpenZFS and ZFS
  
Neither the OpenZFS nor ZFS file systems are supported by SUSE. ZFS is a closed source file system, and therefore cannot be used by SUSE. OpenZFS is under the CDDL license that is incompatible with the GPL license. However, Btrfs provides an excellent alternative to OpenZFS resp. ZFS and is fully supported by SUSE.

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As discussed on Slack: https://suse.slack.com/archives/C02KE4Q3QM7/p1684426962091189

The statement "ZFS is a closed source file system" is false.  It is open source but licenced in a way that is incompatible with the GPL and hence incompatible with the kernel.
Comment 1 Tanja Roth 2023-05-30 13:33:13 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report! It is being tracked and processed as part of our queue.