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Red Hat announces GFS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-likes-a-new-fs dept.

PSUdaemon writes "Over at Kernel Trap they have an announcment that Red Hat has released GFS under the GPL and offer it through RHN. This could potentially be a very substantial offering from Red Hat."

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  1. Really? by cubicledrone · · Score: 5, Funny

    GFS on the GPL? From RHN? WTF?

    Normally I'd ask what's the BFD? but most people would just LOL. Then other people would probably want to know if it comes on DVD or FTP, but the FAQ will explain it JIT. Now what would be really cool would be a PDA that would run it with an RGB display, but it might need extra RAM.

    HTH.

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    1. Re:Really? by identity0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      IANAL, but AFAIK, GFS was formerly GPL, then became EULA'd proprietary SW, then was GPL'd by RH. If you'd RTFA, you'd know it's a NFS-like NAS FS used for HPC clusters.

      BTW, IIRC the CIA and NSA claim it was used by the AoE to make WMD to drop on GWB and the USA, and was only GPL'd after it was liberated in OIF. TGIF!

  2. Re:executive summary? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Yes, expecting us to follow one of those new-fangled hyperlinks to get the information is a bit much. I don't hold with them myself. I blame them for all the bad weather we've been getting.

  3. OTE: BFD by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    Normally I'd ask what's the BFD?

    BFD is a library from the GNU project for manipulating ELF object code files, among other formats.

    (OTE: off-topic excursion, PWB)
    (PWB: posted without bonus)