Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 14:12 UTC, submitted by diegocg
HP has announced that they will open source the AdvFS under the second version of the GPL. AdvFS is a mid-90's file system that is used by the Tru64 UNIX operating system. The Wikipedia page on AdvFS provides the necessary background information and feature set of the AdvFS file system.
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2005-07-08
There's already a website with liks to the code that i didn't notice when i sent the news - http://advfs.sourceforge.net/
Apparently, advfs has a ZFS-like concept of "storage pool" and snapshots. It's interesting to know that such ideas already existed long time ago (in fact competing with tru64 was probably the reason ZFS was born). In other places it seems inferior, for example journaling, which ZFS doesn't use.
Edited 2008-06-23 17:22 UTC