Sun's Schwartz: High-Performance Computing Will Be Pervasive
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| Schwartz said that Sun will continue to ramp up development efforts in its
| storage sector, centering on the Thumper X4500 server—a 48-drive unit with a
| capacity of 24TB per box.
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| "Thumper utilizes the ZFS," Schwartz said, "and we'll be taking the message
| out to the open-source community more and more as time goes on. In fact,
| we've seen the open-source community grow and accelerate its activity. That's
| where the future of development lies."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2179550,00.asp
NetApp/Sun lawsuit seen as open-source test case
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| NetApp contends that Sun's ZFS file system technology, which was donated to
| the OpenSolaris.org open-source community earlier this year, infringes on
| seven NetApp patents.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9034562
Related:
ZFS on Linux: It's alive
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| The project is working, with several users running and even booting from a
| ZFS volume. Correia has not undertaken any performance tuning yet, and
| one sysadmin, Chris Samuel, has posted benchmarks that clock only about
| half the speed of another Linux filesystem, XFS.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/061807-zfs-on-linux.html#6285522977769458795
Linux: ZFS, Licenses and Patents
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| A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a
| Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the
| file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and
| that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being
| reverse engineered.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
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