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Re: PostgreSQL and the OCFS2 filesystem

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"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


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