This is pretty simple from a "BUSINESS" perspective, and you can figure
it out with 8th grade math. Netware has 9,000,000 installed servers, of
which IDC (analysts) have stated that 17% are going to Linux, and 83%
are going to Windows 2000 over the next two years. Perhaps we should
just stick our heads in the sand, and let Microsoft take all the Netware
servers for upgrades? Pretty dumb, huh?
I'm doing NWFS as both a replacement file system for Linux, and to
position Linux to devour Novell's installed base. It's primary use will
be to allow customers to effortlessly upgrage Netware systems to Linux.
We are even writing in-place conversion software that will convert NWFS
into EXT2 on-disk formats (getting the picture now). Not to mention
that if you want to use the thing as a native linux file system, you get
mirroring, striping, failover, and mulitple namespace support for every
computer system on the planet in a consolidated set of utilities and
file system without needing end users to have a degree in astrophysics
to configue raid drivers, etc.
Personally, I think the ReiserFS concepts are really cool, and very
clever, and I like their approach, but it isn't bringing over a huge
installed base to Linux.
Wake up, dude!
Jeff
Greg Maxwell wrote:
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > He says several weeks for the benefit of the hard of reading ...
>
> I think I'm not the only one hard of reading today:
>
> " We thought of doing something similiar with NWFS, but
> our attorneys, after spending several weeks examining the GPL and
> reviewing case law for open source IP, advised us is that we either
> could "give it all away" or restrict it, but that if we placed any
> restrictions on it, it wasn't open sourced."
>
> This is the only mention of several weeks, and it has nothing to do with
> reiserfs. No one is talking about USE restrictions, and as I said in my
> first message: legally there is no such things as "open source".
>
> > > Perhaps you are just afraid that new developments like ReiserFS are
> > > making your efforts on the near dead NWFS increasingly pointless?
> >
> > Umm does reiserfs read netware partitions ? Thats a new feature I didnt
> > know about.
>
> Okay. Lets think for a second.
>
> 1. What direction is Netware's market share going?
> 2. How many people (even netware users) have any big reason to share a
> netware disk
> in linux?
> 3. How much effort has it taken to produce a NWFS for linux?
>
> Given these questions, it makes sence that the NWFS was developed as a
> replacement FS for Linux. Therefor, any other FS you could use with
> Linux would be competitors? No?
>
> > > Strange.
> >
> > Your message is indeed very strange.
>
> Actually, I think it's stranger that you'd get involved in such a
> trivial flame war, you normally only get in on the good ones. :)
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