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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2006-03-20
CDDL is similar to the BSD license, except that it requires the original code to stay opened, while additions can be kept closed.
And why is everyone hailing BSD when it comes integrating external stuff? You GPL freaks are all about code communism, yet steal things from the BSD world and don't and can't give back because of your GPL.