Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:20:32 +1100 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:02:36PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Here's a gem of a claim from the main WAFL patent: > > "20. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of using one or > more of said read-only copies of said file system to back-up said > blocks comprising one or more consistency points of said file system." > http://innominate.org/~phillips/wafl.patent.5819292.html > > I may be interpreting this incorrectly, but this seems to say that they > claim proprietary rights to making a backup from a checkpoint.
also sounds very similar to [one use for] lvm snapshots. does hp-ux have those too? (linux lvm documentation seems to say it [lvm] was based on a similar hp-ux feature...)
j.
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