Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751774Ab3FXOSj (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:18:39 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:57725 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875Ab3FXOSi (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:18:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:18:35 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Christian Stroetmann Cc: Daniel Phillips , Linux FS Devel , Linux Kernel , Tux3 Subject: Re: Tux3 Report: Meet Shardmap, the designated successor of HTree Message-ID: <20130624141835.GA23245@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1EC23D2B9975384993D85B5DB93AAE8860E5A2@sisaex02sj> <51C353C6.2070406@ontolinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51C353C6.2070406@ontolinux.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 30 Hi! > At first you came up with a file system that can handle a great > many/billions files and has ACID feature, which are both features of > my Ontologic File System (OntoFS; see [1]). Both were said to be a > no-go at that time (around 2007 and 2008). > Then you came up, with my concept of a log-structured hashing based > file system [2] and [3], presented it as your invention yesterday > [4], and even integrated it with your Tux3 file system that already > has or should have the said features of my OntoFS. I only waited for > this step by somebody strongly connected with the company Samsung > since the October 2012. AIso, I do think that both steps are very > clear signs that shows what is going on behind the curtain. > And now your are so bold and please me that I should credit these > ideas in the sense of crediting your ideas. For sure, I always do > claim for copyright of my ideas, and the true question is if you are > allowed to implement them at all. In this conjunction, I would give Fortunately, you can't copyright ideas. Chuck Norris managed to do it once, but you can't. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/