Star Tux3, a Versioning Filesystem
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 25th Jul 2008 16:08 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux 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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Weeman
Member since:
2006-03-20

You may dislike the GPL, but at least it was written to defend the liberty of the users, the CDDL was written to protect Sun from Free Software competition (Linux), barf!

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.

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Crono Member since:
2006-11-08

You GPL freaks are all about code communism,

Do you think you're cool or something?

yet steal things from the BSD world and don't and can't give back because of your GPL.

I call BS.
1.) You can't "steal" code from BSD-Projects. Taking the code and get something to work with it is the whole purpose of the license.
2.) Even if it's BSD-code you still can't relicense the code itself.
3.) The GPL REQUIRES you to give the code back. It's your problem if you don't want to use GPL'd code.

But it's always interesting to see that some BSD-fanatics believe that everyone may take the code, modify it and don't give anything back EXCEPT the Linux-people, they are obviously not allowed to use BSD-code.
What a hypocrite.

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hamster Member since:
2006-10-06

Do you think you're cool or something?
But it's always interesting to see that some BSD-fanatics believe that everyone may take the code, modify it and don't give anything back EXCEPT the Linux-people, they are obviously not allowed to use BSD-code.
What a hypocrite.


Now i don't care about your bitch fight over which licens is the best but i must admit that i don't agree with you calling the bsdl camp hypocrites. Yes the bsdl allows people to take the code without giving back but the gpl people tell anyone who care and those who don't aswell that they are about sharing code. Thats all find they should be able to tell that to anyone. But it is kinda weird that they are all for sharing code but yet they have a problem with giving back to diffenrent bsd licensed projects don't you think? Now who's the hypocrite?

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renox Member since:
2005-07-06

CDDL is similar to the BSD license, except that it requires the original code to stay opened, while additions can be kept closed.


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..

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hamster Member since:
2006-10-06

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.


So when gpl v3 is newer then the cddl it's still the cddl that should change so it would be compatible?


You should be ashamed of the end of your post..


Agree name calling like that doesnt help him to get his point across.

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