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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Like the GPL-with-linking-exception license, it's not a new concept! As I said, it's main novelty is that it's GPL-incompatible.
There's also the LGPL which has the same concept but I don't like it as it enforce an artificial distinction between static and dynamic linking.
You should be ashamed of the end of your post..