Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

[Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:58 -0400, Linda Knippers wrote:
> Subrata Modak wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:24 -0400, Leandro Dorileo wrote:
> >> I believe porting AdvFS to run on linux would be good to improve the
> >> knowledge on fs development.
> >> If someone start porting it for linux please let me know I would
> >> really like to be on it.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Subrata Modak
> >> <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Linda,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:27 -0400, Linda Knippers wrote:
> >>>> Its good to hear from AdvFS fans. :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> In case its not clear, this is a GPLv2 technology release, not an actual
> >>>> port to Linux.  We're hoping that the code and documentation will be
> >>>> helpful in the development of new file systems for Linux that will
> >>>> provide similar capabilities, and perhaps used to make tweaks to
> >>>> existing file systems.  We'll get the tests posted soon.
> >>> We express hope that someday this becomes part of Linux Kernel in some
> >>> form or the other. From test engineers point of view, we would like to
> >>> have those test case in LTP. This will give access of the test cases to
> >>> a huge community of test engineers.
> >>>
> > 
> > Linda/others,
> > 
> > Would you like to share some thoughts for this proposal ?
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying.  I was off-line for a few days.
> 
> Most of the AdvFS tests are targeted to features that were somewhat
> unique to AdvFS.  I think that when the tests are ported to test
> a Linux file system that has similar features, such as btrfs, it will
> make sense for those tests to be added to the LTP.  So from an LTP
> perspective, I think its the derivative work that's most interesting.

Thank you very much for writing back. I will definitely track those
derivative works, and would ping you for the corresponding testcases as
such.

Regards--
Subrata

> 
> -- ljk
> 
> > 
> > Regards--
> > Subrata
> > 
> >>> We would like to know if you would be interested to contribute these
> >>> test cases to the Linux Test Project (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/) under
> >>> GPLv2 with somebody sending the Patch with a DCO Signoff. I would like
> >>> to put it here:
> >>>
> >>> http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/fs/
> >>>
> >>> Regards--
> >>> Subrata
> >>>
> >>>> -- ljk
> >>>>
> >>>> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:19:14PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> >>>>>> hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> HP has released AdvFS, a file system that was developed by Digital
> >>>>>> Equipment Corp
> >>>>>> and continues to be part of HP's Tru64 operating system.
> >>>>> Wow! That's awesome. I discovered it in 1999 and 9 years later, it probably
> >>>>> remains the most advanced FS I encountered. That was a major reason I was
> >>>>> sad to see Digital Unix die.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> More info and code at: http://advfs.sourceforge.net/
> >>>>> Kudos to HP for explicitly releasing under GPLv2 to make it Linux-compatible!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Willy
> >>>>>