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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LSM is/was a layer that sits beteen ADVFS and the block I/O device files.They are separate products. You could always run ADVFS directly on the partition. If you wanted RAID features you use LSM (Logical storage manager) in between.
There should not be any Veritas code in ADVFS
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This is really cool. On first glance the code is both huge and respectably commented. I wonder if / when someone will attempt a port, and if any layers will be violated. (Ducks and covers!
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Also, I wonder if there are Veritas IP issues. I saw in some Compaq docs that LSM was VxVM derived, so I wonder if pieces are missing? Regardless, I heard a rumor that VxVM would be open sourced. Since hell just froze over here, who knows?
Would love to dig around all day. Too bad I have a real job!