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bayareaguy on June 27, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: NetApp believes ZFS could put them out of business...

WAFS sounds like it borrows a lot the research done 20 years ago by the Sprite group.

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/filesystems-metadata.h...

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/ret...

Ousterhout's LFS paper is from 1991 and according to Wikipedia NetApp wasn't founded until 1992.

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