Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

[Subrata Modak <subrata-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

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-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> 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 ?

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
> >> >
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