Hello Daniel, hello everbody else,
in Oct 2000 there's been some discussion "Tux2 - evil patents sighted" (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0343.html), and in Aug 2002 (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html) Daniel wrote > It's well down my list of priorities because of uncertainties due to > the U.S. patent system. > Does anybody want to know if patent chill exists, and is it hurting > open source? The answer is yes. With the recent Supreme Court decisions (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070430121005424) and the fact that Daniel wrote that he did most of his work in *1989* (which is now 18 years ago!) is there a chance for newer developments? It seems to me that this kind of filesystem could solve a few problems that are currently attacked: - Atomic snapshots. Make a new superblock, and mount this copy in another directory. As long as it's not overwritten, it stays consistent. - Speed/Consistency for Flash media. There is a list of superblocks, and when the new block has been written the pointer from the old gets set - until the first block in the list gets re-written. There may be some other nice things I didn't think about - but just having this filesystem for harddisks might be good, too. Regards, Phil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
