Re: AdvFS released under GPLv2

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2008-06-26 17:11, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
>> > HP has released AdvFS, a file system that was developed by Digital
>> > Equipment Corp
>> > and continues to be part of HP's Tru64 operating system.
>> 
>> Wow! That's awesome. I discovered it in 1999 and 9 years later, it probably
>> remains the most advanced FS I encountered. That was a major reason I was
>> sad to see Digital Unix die.
>
>That's something I missed in the press release... what is so advanced
>about AdvFS? What is the killer feature?

Automatic storage pool resizing would be the killer feature I would want.
Especially advanced Windows users (yes, well, that's my observation)
tend to create lots and lots of partitions and of course having one
filled up means you either need to improvise or undertake a partition
resizing (the latter of which is always a bit risky).
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