On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:46:49PM -0600, Chris Cox wrote: > It's very likely that Red Hat will make it GPL unless > there is something inside the thing that would prevent > that (even then, it just means it'll take a bit longer). > > Do you know yet, Alan?
Alan (and another kernel hacker from RedHat) worked with me on fixing up the last GFS version before they went closed source, and unless the GFS code is in a much better shape than at that time (which I strongly doubt) it would be a shame for redhat to release that code and probably immediately followed by a few remote exploits for their 'enterprise' product.. But from the PR speak it seems they will opensource it and maybe the pear review will actually make it a good product some day. Note that OpenGFS still isn't dead and has made some nice progress, like support for the IBM distributed lock manager (so the single point of failure in Sistina's GFS which is completly untolerable for HA enviroments is gone) and a first cut of support for the Linux 2.6 kernel. But even OpenGFS still needs lots of work. We'll see what RedHat will do with their new engineering ressource sooner or later I'll guess.
