Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 25th Jul 2008 16:08 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Daniel Phillips has announced the prototype design of a new linux filesystem (implementation has only begun). The most interesting thing seems to be a different way of implementing versioning: "Unlike the currently fashionable recursive copy on write designs with one tree root per version, Tux3 stores all its versioning information in the leaves of btrees using the versioned pointer algorithm. This method promises a significant shrinkage of metadata for heavily versioned filesystems as compared to ZFS and Btrfs".
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2005-07-08
I know that BSD community was able to port ZFS http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS into FreeBSD. How come they were able to do it if there are license restrictions? I don't understand how CDDL was compatible with BSD license but not GPL.
Edited 2008-07-25 17:56 UTC