On Gwe, 2004-01-09 at 21:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

I've no grand product plan to splash to Linux on S/390 beyond what has
already been said. Beating up your Red Hat sales contact for information
never does any harm though 8)

> 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..

I've talked to Sistina people who said it was, but of course until its
open nobody really knows. On the other hand I take comfort from the fact
they are going to have to get it past Al Viro 8)

> 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.

I have a stick a finger in the air and guess kind of feeling that there
is much from OpenGFS that is better than GFS, and vice versa.

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