On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:24 -0400, Leandro Dorileo wrote: > I believe porting AdvFS to run on linux would be good to improve the > knowledge on fs development. > If someone start porting it for linux please let me know I would > really like to be on it. > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Subrata Modak > <subrata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Linda, > > > > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:27 -0400, Linda Knippers wrote: > >> Its good to hear from AdvFS fans. :-) > >> > >> In case its not clear, this is a GPLv2 technology release, not an actual > >> port to Linux. We're hoping that the code and documentation will be > >> helpful in the development of new file systems for Linux that will > >> provide similar capabilities, and perhaps used to make tweaks to > >> existing file systems. We'll get the tests posted soon. > > > > We express hope that someday this becomes part of Linux Kernel in some > > form or the other. From test engineers point of view, we would like to > > have those test case in LTP. This will give access of the test cases to > > a huge community of test engineers. > > Linda/others, Would you like to share some thoughts for this proposal ? Regards-- Subrata > > We would like to know if you would be interested to contribute these > > test cases to the Linux Test Project (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/) under > > GPLv2 with somebody sending the Patch with a DCO Signoff. I would like > > to put it here: > > > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/fs/ > > > > Regards-- > > Subrata > > > >> > >> -- ljk > >> > >> Willy Tarreau wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:19:14PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > >> >> hi, > >> >> > >> >> HP has released AdvFS, a file system that was developed by Digital > >> >> Equipment Corp > >> >> and continues to be part of HP's Tru64 operating system. > >> > > >> > Wow! That's awesome. I discovered it in 1999 and 9 years later, it probably > >> > remains the most advanced FS I encountered. That was a major reason I was > >> > sad to see Digital Unix die. > >> > > >> >> More info and code at: http://advfs.sourceforge.net/ > >> > > >> > Kudos to HP for explicitly releasing under GPLv2 to make it Linux-compatible! > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Willy > >> > > >> > -- > >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > >> > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
