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Linux Summit Will Preview New Advanced File System

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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RE[5]: ZFS?

by hobgoblin on Wed 15th Oct 2008 02:50 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: ZFS?"

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2005-07-06

Why doesn't the Linux community dual license if it needs Solaris tech?

need it? when was it ever said that linux needs anything solaris?

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RE[6]: ZFS?

by Arun on Wed 15th Oct 2008 03:53 in reply to "RE[5]: ZFS?"

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2005-07-07

need it? when was it ever said that linux needs anything solaris?

Linux has implemented a lot of Solaris technology in the past. The slab allocator for one. Such blind zealotry is bad form.

Edited 2008-10-15 03:53 UTC

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RE[7]: ZFS?

by hobgoblin on Wed 15th Oct 2008 04:18 in reply to "RE[6]: ZFS?"

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2005-07-06

implemented, yes. but i suspect it was more a case of "path of least effort within the bounds of the gpl" then "we cant do without it, and only solaris can provide it" that the word "need" implies.

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