> AFAIK, patents have to be non-trivial _and_ non-obvious. Plus the fact > that using a userspace NFS daemon has allowed for this for many years, > which means prior art. Maybe someone else knows this but I thought that a concept could include other existing technologies, etc. Because, it's not the items themselves that you want to protect, it's the concept of using them together. Dunno, just guessing really. Mike -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster