Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:54:13 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: Tux 2 patents |
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The patent attorneys at Malinkrodt received the materials Daniel sent yesterday on the Tux 2 patents via courier and are working on the analysis. They said they would have something for us to post on LKML next week.
Jeff
Alain Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > I remember when at the University of Cambridge (in England) about 25 years ago > seeing some work then about the Jackdaw (or was is Jackard) database system > that had the great feature of being immune to OS crashes, it used a phased > update mechanism where new blocks were written to disk and the last block > written was the one that contained the switched pointer, until this last block > had been written the changes had not been made. Since the write of a disk block > was atomic the database would never be corrupt. > > If someone wants I think that I still have a (paper) copy of the report describing > this. I can send/fax a copy if wanted. > > I don't subscribe to this list, so please reply direct if someone wants it. > > (Please don't request a copy just out of curiosity since I don't want to have > to post/fax copies that won't help resolve this case by showing prior art.) > > Cheers > > -- > Alain Williams > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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