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Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs
Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch. "This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system. His preferred choice is btrfs, and Heise notes an email Ts'o sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List a week back positioning ext4 as a bridge to btrfs.
Bullshit, the developers ( Sun ) didn't choose the CDDL to be GPL incompatible, they chose the CDDL so that they could 1) be compatible with a bunch of other stuff ( there's more than just linux out there, you know ) and 2) so that vendors that don't want to open-source their drivers could still provide Solaris drivers.
... you can't link to it if you decide you want to give your users more freedom than the GPL.
GPL is almost as bad as proprietary
It hurts performance. You're doing RAID/LVM stuff
on disk blocks that could be empty. Wasting effort
on unused bits is stupid.
It endangers data. RAID/LVM stuff isn't normally
transactional. (there is no journal or log)
You can handle booting with a dead disk, and you
might be able to handle a disk dying at some
arbitrary point in time, but you can't handle
disks that mangle your data in interesting ways.
it doesn't make a lick of difference to the users if the code is GPL, CDDL, BSD, or for that matter even closed-source, they just want something that works.
License debates are debates precisely among developers.
and fuck you "Sun are anti-user"... Sun is the largest contributor to open-source in the world, even leaving out Java and OpenSolaris. Plus, no other company has had the balls to open-source their crown jewels. Look at happy open-source friendly IBM... Lotus: closed. AIX: closed. Websphere: closed... and the list goes on.