
Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a
presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
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2005-07-07
Hmmmmmm. Funny. My recollection is that Linux's usage of the GPL pre-dates both ZFS and the CDDL, and Sun knew fine well what it was doing when it started using the CDDL for selected bits of software. "
If Sun had used GPL, other OSes like MacOS, *BSD and QNX couldn't have ported ZFS or other Solaris tech. Sun chose a more open license to spread the tech around. Too bad Linux users are so selfish.
Edited 2008-10-14 15:53 UTC