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> BSD lawsuit hadn't held things back 20-ish years ago Linus said he wouldn't have written Linux if he had 386bsd at that time, which took longer. What that me
by cm3 10y ago
> BSD lawsuit hadn't held things back 20-ish years ago
Linus said he wouldn't have written Linux if he had 386bsd at that time, which took longer. What that means is up for speculation, but Linux became wildly popular as a host for Apache and Samba before anything else. Similarly, if Oracle hadn't closed off Solaris, maybe FreeBSD wouldn't be the best compromise between hardware support and ZFS+DTrace availability.
PS: XFS is about to gain COW and data checksum support, probably generally available next year.
- nisa 10y ago> PS: XFS is about to gain COW and data checksum support, probably generally available next year. Do you have link for that? XFS supports metadata checksumming already and cp --reflink IIRC but I've never heard about data checksums and "real" COW e.g. snapshots?