From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leandro Dorileo" Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:24:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080623124929.GA1369@1wt.eu> <485FB2C1.6050101@hp.com> <1214233310.4719.87.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Linda Knippers" , "Willy Tarreau" , "Xose Vazquez Perez" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ltp-list To: subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:52263 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756011AbYFXMY2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:24:28 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1161756fgg.17 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:24:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1214233310.4719.87.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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 >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in >> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Dorileo