Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753939AbXFPI4q (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:56:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752547AbXFPI4i (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:56:38 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.192.84]:40348 "EHLO rwcrmhc14.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750963AbXFPI4h (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:56:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4673B77E.1000803@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:12:14 -0600 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" CC: Jack Stone , alan , hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: Versioning file system References: <46731169.2090002@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <467314E2.9010306@zytor.com> <46739B2C.4080606@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> <4673B15B.2080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4673B15B.2080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1490 Lines: 30 Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > > This already exists -- it just not open sourced, and you could spend > years trying to create it. Trust me, once you start dealing with the > distributed issues with this, its gets very complex. I am not meaning > to discourage you, but there are patents already filed on this on > Linux. So you need to consider these as well, and there are several > folks who are already doing this or have done it. If it goes into > Microsoft endorsed cross licensed Linuxes It may be ok (Vertias sold > this capability to Microsoft already, about 12 patents there to worry > over). There's also another patent filed as well. It's a noble > effort to do a free version, but be aware there's some big guns with > patents out there already, not to mention doing this is complex beyond > belief. > Anyway good luck. ~~~~ > - > 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/ > I reviewed your sample implementation, and it appears to infringe 3 patents already. You should do some research on this. ~~~~ - 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/