joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: > The netapps patents contain claims on ideas that I invented for my Diploma > thesis work between 1989 and 1991, so the netapps patents only describe prior > art. The new ideas introduced with "wofs" include the ideas on how to use COW > for filesystems and on how to find the most recent "superblock" on a COW > filesystem. The ieas for the latter method have been developed while > discussing the "wofs" structure with Casten Bormann at TU-Berlin.
Would you perhaps be willing to share the text? Sounds quite interesting, especially to compare it with ZFS and with Netapp's introduction to WAFL that I read a while ago. (And I know that discussions with Carsten Bormann can result in remarkable results -- not that I would want to disregard your own part in these ideas. :-) Regards, Juergen. -- Viele Informatiker sind Taeter; sie haben beispielweise Sexualdelikte begangen oder sind verantwortlich fuer Bluttaten in der eigenen Familie. Meiner Meinung nach ist ihr Gehirn in der Informatiktechnik ausser Kontrolle geraten. -- Karl Notter _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
