[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

[r.stricklin]

On May 8, 2010, at 12:34 AM, Dan Duncan wrote:

> HP released TRU64's AdvFS filesystem as GPL in 2008.  I'd love to see
> someone port that.  It was doing all the shiny new ZFS bells and
> whistles in 1993.

...and had serious data losing race conditions at least as recently as  
in 4.0F. We were losing hundreds of gigabytes PER WEEK at amazon.com  
in 1999. We spent most of that year getting the remains of DEC to even  
admit there was a problem.

ok
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