"Ploski, Karen L" <Karen.Ploski@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now that OCFS2 is part of the kernel, the licensing issue would seem to > have been put to rest. Exactly how do you think that changes its GPL status? > Does the fact that OCFS2 is now part of the > kernel help reduce the size of the work effort required to have a look > at the possibility of PostgreSQL using OCFS2? Is shared memory still > the real issue? Any thoughts? No, a cluster file system doesn't change a thing for us, even if we were willing to build in a fundamental dependency on a Linux-only, GPL-only component. regards, tom lane