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		pja on July 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dockerlite: Lightweight Linux virtualization with ... The ZFS sources are licensed in a way that makes it impossible to merge them into the Linux kernel. You could run ZFS as a user space daemon communicating with the kernel over the FUSE interface but it's never going to be part of the kernel itself.

otterley on July 7, 2013 [–]

You can also load it as a module with dkms - much better performance than under FUSE.

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