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Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) Now GPL

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Re:A new open file system? by PalmKiller · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who?

  2. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hans? Is that you?

  3. Re:What's the point? by cephah · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Re:What's the point? by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    because it's not a "killer" filesystem?

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  5. Re:What's the point? by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  6. I think I will wait... by TimothyDavis · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:A new open file system? by Urger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woosh

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  8. Re:A new open file system? by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your sarcasm detector needs adjustment.

  9. Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... by fm6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!
  10. Just what we needed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Another ReiserFS killer!

  11. Re:What's the obsession with filesystems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  12. Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... by youngdev · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  13. Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  14. Ask Slashdot by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Ask Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Whoosh!

    2. Re:Ask Slashdot by fimbulvetr · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

    3. Re:Ask Slashdot by larpon · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  15. Re:What's the point? by joib · · Score: 4, Funny

    So is ZFS, genius...

  16. Re:Sheesh... by snoyberg · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    Yes, but does netcraft confirm it?

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  17. STOP LAUGHING YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS! by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  18. Re:Sheesh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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?

  19. Re:What's the point? by master5o1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a Merkle tree growing in my backyard.

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  20. Re:Tru64 goodness by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  21. Re:What's the point? by The+name+is+Dave.+Ja · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  22. Re:A new open file system? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  23. Re:What's the point? by pdp1144 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.