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Real Quietly Releases More Code as Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the giood-citizenship dept.

AlexJeff writes "Yesterday Real open sourced the server source code of its Network Optimized FileSystem (Asynchronous FileSystem). Actually it "dual-licensed" it under its open source (RPSL) and commercial licenses. According to a posting on the Helix Community, the Asynchronous FileSystem provides asynchronous access to the OS file-system and is mainly used to help resolve timing issues with Network File System(NFS). This functionality provides improvement capacity in 'Helix DNA-powered servers, especially on frameworks that use Network File System.'"

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  1. Re:Is this a smart move? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A tweaked version of NFS has very litte relationship to what media player your Winbox ships with.

  2. Helixcommunity by tcopeland · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...is the largest public GForge server in the world.

    There's a picture of their server rack as of a year or so ago right here.

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  3. Real: the unsung hero of the open source world? by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Real has proven time and time again that they're the unsung hero of the open source movement. While companies like Sun promise to open their software time and time again (thankfully they actually do), and then others like Borland release theirs but quickly make it proprietary again, Real has proven they are serious. They release a massive amount of code back to the community, but never earn the respect that other companies do. That's why I'd just like to give a big Thanks! to real, for all they have given to the open source community.

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  4. Re:What is this? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good question -the project page doesn't say either.

    From the context clues, I'll take a guess - NFS performance is OK if you use the async mount option. But then you risk data loss. The Linux NFS devs tell you never to use async mode. So you use sync mode and then the performance sucks (3.5x slower in the tests I did a few years back).

    So maybe this provides a safe async filesystem. That would be nice, especially if it's easier to setup than OpenAFS.

    Still it would be helpful if they had a WTF page. Maybe they do and I didn't find i t.

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  5. Re:Heroes? Nah, that's going to far. by aminorex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, if someone has 100 dollars, and gives you 95,
    you're pissed at him for keeping 5?

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