Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-22 Thread Jörn Engel
On Thu, 21 June 2007 13:57:15 -0400, James Bruce wrote: > > efficient atomic snapshots on a filesystem. There are still some issues > with unexpected disk space usage (it requires _additional_ disk space to > _delete_ a file), and it tends to use more memory (you want to delay > client writes

Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:26:15PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > > Second, Oracle is now working on Btrfs (if ever a FS needed a better > > name... is that pronounced ButterFS?). > > (In our silliest moments, yes. Absolutely.) I'm sure when the PHBen are around it's "Better FS". It's all a Free(s

Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-21 Thread Zach Brown
> Second, Oracle is now working on Btrfs (if ever a FS needed a better > name... is that pronounced ButterFS?). (In our silliest moments, yes. Absolutely.) - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-21 Thread James Bruce
Hi, Ph. Marek wrote: 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 beca