Home » Mailing list archives » linux-kernel » 2008 » June » 29

Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

Previous thread: [PATCH 0/2]v2 configfs: symlink() fixes by Louis Rilling on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:16 am. (6 messages)

Next thread: [PATCH 1/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls. by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:30 am. (1 message)
[view original message]
From: Xose Vazquez Perez
Subject: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:19 am

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.

More info and code at: http://advfs.sourceforge.net/

regards,
-- 
so much to do, so little time.
--


[ message continues ]
[view original message]
From: Willy Tarreau
Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:49 am

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

Kudos to HP for explicitly releasing under GPLv2 to make it Linux-compatible!

Regards,
Willy

--


[ message continues ]
[view original message]
From: Linda Knippers
Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 7:27 am

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.

-- ljk


--


[ message continues ]
[view original message]
From: Chris Mason
Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:02 am

The docs alone are great, I haven't even gotten to the code yet ;)
Thanks to HP for all of this.

-chris


--


[ message continues ]
[view original message]
From: Pavel Machek
Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 8:11 am

That's something I missed in the press release... what is so advanced
about AdvFS? What is the killer feature?

							Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
--


[ message continues ]
[view original message]
From: Jan Engelhardt
Subject: Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 7:29 am

Automatic storage pool resizing would be the killer feature I would want.
Especially advanced Windows users (yes, well, that's my observation)
tend to create lots and lots of partitions and of course having one
filled up means you either need to improvise or undertake a partition
resizing (the latter of which is always a bit risky).
--


[ message continues ]
Previous thread: [PATCH 0/2]v2 configfs: symlink() fixes by Louis Rilling on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:16 am. (6 messages)

Next thread: [PATCH 1/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls. by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:30 am. (1 message)