On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:01:17PM -0400, David Boyes wrote:
> > According to our kernel developers, releasing AdvFS  to the open
> source
> > community was for the purpose of using it as a research tool to
> improve
> > existing Linux file systems.  Actually porting it to Linux would be a
> > significant amount of work, ala XFS.
> >
> > Now, if you were to sic Neale on it, and throw some food and beer/wine
> > into the cave once in a while, we all know miracles are entirely
> feasible.
>
> It's a great cluster filesystem as well as being designed for
> manageability.

Just don't try to run something like a usenet news spool on it.  It's been
tried and the results weren't pretty.  Then again, inn is probably one of
the worst usage cases for AdvFS.

        Kris

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