On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:58 -0400, Linda Knippers wrote: > Subrata Modak wrote: > > 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 ? > > Sorry for the delay in replying. I was off-line for a few days. > > Most of the AdvFS tests are targeted to features that were somewhat > unique to AdvFS. I think that when the tests are ported to test > a Linux file system that has similar features, such as btrfs, it will > make sense for those tests to be added to the LTP. So from an LTP > perspective, I think its the derivative work that's most interesting. Thank you very much for writing back. I will definitely track those derivative works, and would ping you for the corresponding testcases as such. Regards-- Subrata > > -- ljk > > > > > 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
