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I would suggest that, in order to make it a more useful product, you plan on making it portable from the very beginning. I myself have had many headaches trying to make it work because it was developed with only Solaris in mind and the other operating systems were just an afterthought. Also, I know I've mentioned this before, but have you considered releasing it under the GPL instead of the CDDL? I know of several people who have shied away from it because its license is incompatible with the GPL. For my part, our legal department is already familiar with the GPL. If I have to have them review another license in order to use/modify/extend a product, it's a deal-breaker. (In other words, we haven't put any real effort into Filebench because the legal review could take several months to work out and we don't have the time or budget to baby-sit that process.) The other thought that I've had is that if you really want this product to be an open source product, you might try letting the community participate in the development. (Actually USE sourceforge or something similar rather than just posting new releases out there.) Dave Harder General Dynamics C4S -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Shepler Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:26 PM To: Timothy Butler Cc: perf-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [perf-discuss] filebench dormant on sourceforge? On Jun 1, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Timothy Butler wrote: > Is there a newer version available? > > The newest version on sourceforge is almost 2 years old. > > I'd like to work on an extension, but don't want to duplicate work. In > particular, I'm wondering if there's been work to break the posix IO > part out into a plugin or module. If so, I'd like to use that > architecture to create an alternate IO module. Hi, Tim. Yes, sourceforge is woefully out of date. There is a group of us that have been working on cleaning up filebench (source and documentation). The documentation piece is being captured on the solarisinternals.com wiki at: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench -and- http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ FileBench_Workload_Language Our intent is to have filebench included in OpenSolaris proper so that the tool is generally available/useful. We also intend to keep the sourceforge project active to assist in porting to other platforms, etc. The exact details of who we are going to accomplish that are yet to be defined. As for plugins or separate from the posix i/o usage, I am working on that with the help of an intern. My initial intent is to provide a NFSv3 and NFSv4 plugins and eventually CIFS as well. Spencer _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
