HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Mon Jun 23 15:27:37 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Bayard Coolidge <n1ho at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > That said, I'm wondering aloud what AdvFS would bring to the Open Source
> > table.
>

Snapshots ala NetApp and ZFS (10s, 100s existing instead of
create/backup/delete it) would be cool.


> into Linux.  That's marketing leverage.  If AdvFS gets into the
> kernel, HP can say to Sun, "Nyah nyah, we're in the kernel and you're
> not!"  (Zealots, please note: How accurate or fair that would be is
> irrelevant.)


Like XFS and JFS?
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