Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL

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Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL 226

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:51PM from the yet-another-convert dept.

melios writes "In a move that could help boost the scalability of Linux for grids and other advanced 64-bit multiprocessor applications, HP has released its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community. Source code, design documentation, and test suites for AdvFS are available on SourceForge."

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Re:A new open file system? (Score:5, Funny)

by PalmKiller ( 174161 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:54PM (#23908251) Homepage

Who?

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Cool (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:58PM (#23908327)

The last file system I messed around with was absolute murder.

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Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

by cephah ( 1244770 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:59PM (#23908349)

This one is -- advanced, so it must be good, right? Right?

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Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

by eclectro ( 227083 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:59PM (#23908353)

because it's not a "killer" filesystem?

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Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

by bsDaemon ( 87307 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @03:59PM (#23908355)

i dunno... no wifi, less space than ZFS. lame!

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I think I will wait... (Score:5, Funny)

by TimothyDavis ( 1124707 ) writes: <tumuchspaam@hotmail.com> on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:00PM (#23908379)

...I hear WinFS will be in Win7...it should be legendary.

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Re:A new open file system? (Score:2, Funny)

by Urger ( 817972 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:06PM (#23908465) Homepage

Woosh

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Re:A new open file system? (Score:3, Funny)

by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:12PM (#23908561) Homepage Journal

Your sarcasm detector needs adjustment.

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Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:5, Funny)

by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:17PM (#23908613) Homepage Journal

Oh well. 1998 me is still pleased to hear this.
Is 1998 you still on the line? Warn him that Star Trek: Insurrection really sucks!

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Just what we needed! (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:23PM (#23908697)

Another ReiserFS killer!

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Re:What's the obsession with filesystems? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:30PM (#23908787)

Exactly! They should just create a data structure and search algorithm with O(1) in all use cases.

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Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:2, Funny)

by youngdev ( 1238812 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:37PM (#23908885)

you have a chance to impart some great information to someone of the past and you want to be a film critic? How lame.

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Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:37PM (#23908891)

That's all you'd tell your 1998 self?!?? I'd tell mine to invest heavily in the DotComs so he'd lose all his money...it'd be hilarious like that time someone told me they were my future self and that I should invest heavily in DotCom start-ups and I lost all my money!

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Ask Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary@@@yahoo...com> on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:37PM (#23908907) Journal

I am totally serious: why does the back of my left ear smell like cheese doodles? I don't store any kind of foodstuffs behind my ear, and I bathe regularly. Please help.

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Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

by joib ( 70841 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:43PM (#23908997)

So is ZFS, genius...

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Re:Sheesh... (Score:4, Funny)

by snoyberg ( 787126 ) writes: <.ten.egrofecruos.sresu. .ta. .grebyons.> on Monday June 23, 2008 @04:59PM (#23909251) Homepage

M$ and $UN are more dead then B$D!!! lol

Yes, but does netcraft confirm it?

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Re:Cool (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @05:52PM (#23909905)

Hans? Is that you?

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Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @05:52PM (#23909915)

Whoosh!

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STOP LAUGHING YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS! (Score:5, Funny)

by Tetsujin ( 103070 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @06:08PM (#23910061) Homepage Journal

That's not funny! It's wrong! It's wrong to laugh at other people's misery! Stop laughing!
I mean, look at this:
"The last file system I messed around with was absolute murder."
That is clearly meant to poke fun at how EXT3 is gradually replacing EXT2. A lot of people worked very hard on EXT2, it's served the Linux community well for a long time, so I don't think it's right to make fun of it like this!!!

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Re:Sheesh... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @06:13PM (#23910135)

Hey those $s in MS and SUN are telling me that you're making parallels between Sun and Microsoft.

Did Sun buy ZFS from the guys that made QDOS?

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Re:What's the point? (Score:4, Funny)

by master5o1 ( 1068594 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @06:18PM (#23910181) Homepage

I have a Merkle tree growing in my backyard.

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Re:Tru64 goodness (Score:3, Funny)

by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @07:26PM (#23910885) Homepage Journal

Hey don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

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Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

by fimbulvetr ( 598306 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @07:52PM (#23911121)

At least they're not stealing underpants anymore. Must have been because I saved that gnome in halflife 2 episode 2. Ever since then, they seem to be treating me better.

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Re:What's the point? (Score:3, Funny)

by The name is Dave. Ja ( 845139 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @07:57PM (#23911177) Homepage Journal

Thear, thear. Don't get all in a knot over spelling.

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Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)

by larpon ( 974081 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @08:44PM (#23911561)

you've been waiting so long to find a chance to post this haven't you? ;P

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Re:A new open file system? (Score:5, Funny)

by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @08:49PM (#23911603)

Isn't he the antagonist in Hellreiser? The daemonic killer who keeps a journal of its victims.

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Re:What's the point? (Score:2, Funny)

by pdp1144 ( 599396 ) writes: on Monday June 23, 2008 @10:38PM (#23912183)

It can generate the message, "Converting space into time" When it is reorganizing the file system structure to optimize how much data you and put on the file system; over how quickly you can access the data. We still talk about this message at work; and we haven't seen it in over ten years. We had the data center evacuated for safety when we first saw it.

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Re:A new open file system? (Score:5, Funny)

Cool (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

I think I will wait... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:A new open file system? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:A new open file system? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:5, Funny)

Just what we needed! (Score:0, Funny)

Re:What's the obsession with filesystems? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... (Score:5, Funny)

Ask Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Sheesh... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Cool (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:1, Funny)

STOP LAUGHING YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Sheesh... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Tru64 goodness (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)

Re:A new open file system? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What's the point? (Score:2, Funny)

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