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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:What's the point? by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Informative

    AdvFS is comparable in features to ZFS - it has snapshotting, intelligent striping and mirroring, dynamic resizing, etc.

    In short, there's no comparable production filesystem in Linux right now. There's Btrfs from Oracle, but it's in deep alpha.

  2. Re:What's the point? by Vectronic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comparison Of File Systems

    Although its missing from some of the charts...

    AdvFS

    And that page is rather limited in information.

  3. Re:As a former Digital UNIX admin... by Curlsman · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was the filesystem that HP tried to port to HPUX and failed. They licensed Veritas instead.
    I figured that the multithreading that I'd always heard worked so well in AdvFS/Tru64 was hard to port to the non-multithreaded HPUX kernel.

    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39175690,00.htm
    "It had initially planned to complete the migration of the TruCluster/AdvFS feature from Tru64 Unix to HP-UX 11i v3 in the middle of 2006."

    http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1214253121145+28353475&threadId=754760
    "No TruCluster or AdvFS for HP-UX after all"

  4. Re:What's the point? by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. XFS is a multimedia-oriented filesystem, it was designed to support multithreaded streaming with guaranteed access times. It works well for these use-cases.

    But it doesn't work well for a lot of other use-cases, though. Hence, the current development of Btrfs.