Bill Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:43:38PM -0500, Rob Windsor wrote:
> > (No, I'm not defending Sun in it's apparent patent-growling, either, it
> > all sucks IMO.)
>
> In contrast to the positioning by NetApp, Sun didn't start the patent
> fight. It was started by StorageTek, well prior to Sun's acquisition of
> them. We inherited the in-flight fight, and I don't think we wound up
> doing much with it. I agree Sun should have just formally dropped the
> suit, but nobody asked me. :)
If I am right that the case is because of a copy on write structure that
always keeps consistent data structures on the disk. This is what I did already
implement in 1990 with my wofs filesystem code. The basic description of my
filesystem code is on the net since ~ 1995.
Jörg
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