Linked by Rahul on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:19 UTC
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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Member since:2005-07-07
"Shame that license issues has blocked ZFS adoption in Linux distros.
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
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Member since:2005-07-06
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.
So what's the problem with what they did with Java and dual licensing then? Sorry, but that doesn't really wash.
Too bad Linux users are so selfish.
No, they just want to keep code flowing into their project rather than out of it so they can keep the code open ;-).
Member since:2007-04-25
Yeah, it's a real shame you can't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-licensing">dual the code.
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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.