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On Monday 24 November 2008 23:47:14 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> > > btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for |
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> > > everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with |
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> > > r4+compression. |
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> > Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no chance that this |
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> > filestem will become popular on many OS platforms. |
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> btrfs is under GPL... |
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> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/btrfs-kernel-unstable.git;a |
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That's Joerg's point. GPL is restrictive when compared to other OSS licenses. |
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As a filesystem it pretty much goes into a kernel. It's an original work, so |
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can only go into other kernels under the GPL. Effectively the only one that |
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can work for is Linux. |
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Joerg isn't a Linux man, he codes for other platforms too. His viewpoint from |
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what he's posted in the post is usually something like "can this be used on |
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other systems too?" |
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For btrfs the answer is unfortunately "not really" |
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