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Patent Troll now goes after Apache Hadoop & sues LinkedIn and Facebook | 66 comments | Create New Account
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Patent Troll now goes after Apache Hadoop & sues LinkedIn and Facebook
Authored by: complex_number on Saturday, July 14 2012 @ 01:16 AM EDT
ClusterWide file systems have been around for a lot longer than GFS.
There might be earlier implementations but AFAIK, the first successful one was
released by DEC circa 1983 as part of the VAXCluster release of VMS.
It seems to me that many of the principles of distributed filesystem and even
databases we set down then. If I remember correctly even ORacle licensed a bit
of code from DEC that related to distributed lock managment.
Handling locks(Opens) on files is one of the key problems that any distributed
file system designer has to solve.

Later releases even supported diskless cluster members that all booted from a
remote disk.



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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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I will never buy that troll's products ever again... Doh! ...nt
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, July 14 2012 @ 02:27 AM EDT
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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