Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

["Leandro Dorileo" <ldorileo@gmail.com>]

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.
>
> 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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Dorileo