WAFS sounds like it borrows a lot the research done 20 years ago by the Sprite group. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/filesystems-metadata.html http://li

WAFS sounds like it borrows a lot the research done 20 years ago by the Sprite group. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/filesystems-metadata.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/filesystems-metadata.h... http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/retrospective.html http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/ret... Ousterhout's LFS paper is from 1991 and according to Wikipedia NetApp wasn't founded until 1992.