Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

[Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com>]

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.

-- 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
>>>>>
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