www. S D Linux.com » Linux Foundation http://www.sdlinux.com San Diego Linux News and Consulting Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:32:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Btrfs Free Tutorial http://www.sdlinux.com/2010/11/btrfs-free-tutorial/ http://www.sdlinux.com/2010/11/btrfs-free-tutorial/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:32:42 +0000 pacneil http://www.sdlinux.com/?p=216 “Those who follow Linux have certainly heard of Btrfs, a relatively new high performance file system that has a lot of people excited about its potential. Two months ago during LinuxCon Japan, we were pleased to sit down with lead developer Chris Mason [...]]]> New Btrfs Free Tutorial and Request for End User Feedback on Btrfs

“Those who follow Linux have certainly heard of Btrfs, a relatively new high performance file system that has a lot of people excited about its potential. Two months ago during LinuxCon Japan, we were pleased to sit down with lead developer Chris Mason from Oracle to record a short webinar that focuses on demonstrating RAID5 and RAID6 as well as recently completed features in Btrfs. …….”

I followed the link above and listened to the webinar. It requires flash, for those of you that eschew anything javascript. However, if you can handle flash, and if you are curious about btrfs (pronounced butterfs) this is a great introduction including a brief roadmap for vision of the future of btrfs.

I recommend it.

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]]> http://www.sdlinux.com/2010/11/btrfs-free-tutorial/feed/ 0 New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft’s FAT patents http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/07/new-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-fat-patents/ http://www.sdlinux.com/2009/07/new-linux-patch-could-circumvent-microsofts-fat-patents/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:23:12 +0000 admin http://www.sdlinux.com/?p=27 A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft’s patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.

Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement [...]]]> A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft’s patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.

Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft’s FAT filesystem. A new Linux kernel patch that was published last week offers a workaround that might make it possible to continue including FAT in Linux without using methods that are covered by Microsoft’s patents.

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