Here is an article asking Red Hat to opensource the GFS cluster file system. Elsewhere, Red Hat’s newest version of Linux has been granted a significant security certification, bringing the company a step closer to competitors. Version 3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been certified to meet Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) of the Common Criteria certification.
Asking Red Hat to Open GFS; Red Hat Gains Security Certification
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Just wondering about InterMezzo at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ – this comes as standard with Red Hat 8.0/9 and Fedora 1 and 2 (and presumably RHEL 2.1 and 3). It’s a free, open source distributed filing system…and yet this article failed to mention it! Why? Is it no good?
considering OpenGFS, which used the same codebase, never picked up… why should they release the code (again) under the GPL???
the answer was in the article
“considering OpenGFS, which used the same codebase, never picked up… why should they release the code (again) under the GPL???”
opengfs was a fork before gfs got many more features and opengfs hasnt got much support from vendors
Let me get this straight, I defended RH from Sun when Sun said that RH was proprietary, and now it turns out they do have proprietary stuff? WTH? Granted everything else I know about from RH is GPL, but I thought it was RH’s policy of everything open source.
Oh and RH finally caught up to SUSE which has had EAL 2 for a while and is close to having EAL3.
Redhat just acquired the company early this early. It is not a justification for calling redhat linux a proprietary product which it is NOT
Sorry, didnt read the article. That makes more sense.
“Sorry, didnt read the article. That makes more sense.”
redhat has acquired a few companies like this one and cygnus and do not sell any propreitary software bundled with their distros. so i guess you can also see them open up GFS
I recently attended a presentation by Dr. O’keefe, the guy who wrote GFS and who now works for RedHat. He said GFS will be open source sometime around June. And it will be a new version (6.0) I believe, which will use a distributed lock manager and other goodies. So, don’t frett, it’s all good….
Corey
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2003/press_sistina.html
“The integrated team will work to make all of Sistina’s technologies open source and available as a part of a subscription in the first half of 2004.”
Maybe it will pressure SGI to opensource cxfs.
I bothered to read..the answer simply doesn’t make sense. Even when RH releases the code it’s evident there will be no new developers behind GFS…
(Hmm… perhaps RH ran out of developers too and that’s why they will release the code. )
“Even when RH releases the code it’s evident there will be no new developers behind GFS…
(Hmm… perhaps RH ran out of developers too and that’s why they will release the code. )”
what do you mean there is nobody behind gfs. sistina was making big business with it. RH is committed to open source thats why they release it as such. are you going to argue that there is nobody behind linux and thats why you have the kernel source code?
“Even when RH releases the code it’s evident there will be no new developers behind GFS…
(Hmm… perhaps RH ran out of developers too and that’s why they will release the code. )”
I guess I have to say that I’m not surprised on the reaction of some of the posters here since RedHat and Sistina have been pretty quiet about the whole thing. My guess, and it’s exactly that, a guess, is that they want to save the fanfare for the details of the new version and capabilities of GFS (6.x) I’ve been watching for information about the impending release ever since the purchase of sistina was announced, with little information gathered. That was until I sat in on Dr. O’s presentation at the bwbug (http://www.bwbyg.org) meeting. From what I understand, almost all of the sistina employees are now RedHat employees (could be wrong though as the focus wasn’t about the employees, rather the product and it’s use in HPC)….