[OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense?

[Russ Price]

On 12/02/2010 07:09 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> No it doesn't. Debian installer support for ZFS is only provided
> for the kFreeBSD variant. Linux variants of Debian provide
> ZFS-FUSE packages. The "ZFS on Linux" project cited above provides
> native ZFS support in Linux via kernel module, however due to
> licensing incompatibilities binary packages of that module cannot
> be legally redistributed. It is thus legally impossible for
> Linux distributions to include "ZFS on Linux" packages.
>

One possible workaround would be to use DKMS to compile the module from source 
on-the-fly. The only problem with that is that it would still be necessary to 
use a baked-into-the-kernel filesystem for booting.