Bug 1211549 - Incorrect statement about ZFS in Storage Administration Guide
Summary: Incorrect statement about ZFS in Storage Administration Guide
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Non-product-specific documentation
Component: SLE Family (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Jana Halackova
QA Contact: Tanja Roth
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Whiteboard: https://jira.suse.com/browse/DOCTEAM-...
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Reported: 2023-05-19 09:10 UTC by Roger Whittaker
Modified: 2023-06-01 11:56 UTC (History)
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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.