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Re: Background fsck


From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:53:15 +0100

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > If you write your own filesystem code that can read and write to 
> > ext3/reiserfs/etc, I doubt there are legal hurdles.
> 
> Well, ext3 should be fine. But I heard rumors about reiserfs
> being affected by a US patent.
 
The reiserfs people don't claim any patents (you can't distribute code
under the GPL if you claim patents on it).  But I've read claims (I think
by Terry Lambert on FreeBSD lists) that some of the reiserfs techniques
are patented by IBM.

Rahul



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