Re: HP opensourced advfs from tru64 and what it means for btrfs

[Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>]

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> Sure it is interesting as studing anything new, but there is nothing in
> advfs which can prevent btrfs from success. Virtually nothing.

As Bdale commented on the LWN article:

http://lwn.net/Articles/287108/

# While it would be fine with HP if someone wants to "port" AdvFS to Linux
# or any other operating system with a GPLv2 compatible license, this
# contribution is not intended to "compete" with other existing file system
# projects underway in and around the kernel.org development community.     
# 
# Rather, our hope is that the algorithms, design documentation, and test
# suite now available at the AdvFS site... and the active participation of
# HP engineers in various open-source file system projects who have lots of
# AdvFS experience... will help to accelerate the inclusion of AdvFS-like
# enterprise features and capabilities in next-generation file systems for
# Linux.     

NB: Asides from briefly using AdvFS under OSF/1 back in the mid-90's I've 
no other link to it or HP.

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