5 May
2008
5 May
'08
2:28 a.m.
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:40:00PM -0400, cdr wrote:
On Sat May 03, 2008 at 10:00:04PM -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
I am going to take out a patent on chewing food.
-ken
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Russell Hanaghan
<hanaghan(a)starband.net> wrote:
btrfs is GPL
i havent seen them cower in fear of such a ridiculous 'patent' I have spent many hours recently setting up a
custom audio distro that will
be remastered and available as a live CD. I'm no Linux sys admin...I figure
stuff out any way I can, take longer than most to get it just how I like
it....and then I say..hmm, just one more thing I'd like to change....and I
bjork the window manager or some such thing. To re-install at that point
kills MANY hours of fruitfull work and I'm old enough that I don't need
cliche lessons! :)
Thoughts? Oh, please choose smooth edged stones under 16oz in weight!
Netapp implemented this perfectly with the snapshots feature of their
WAFL filesystem. In every directory there is a .snapshots
subdirectory containing monthly, weekly, and hourly snapshots of the
parent directory. If you hose your system recovery is as simple as
"cp -pr .snapshots/hourly.1/* .".
Unfortunately it's patented so Linux can't do the same...