Hilarious bit about NetApp ...
『A completely different way of thinking can be found in Log Structured File Systems , first seen in Ousterhout’s Sprite, in the early 1990. But performancewise the original implementation that was a failure: the first successful and performant implementation can be found - made by Oursterhout’s students - in Solaris ZFS, and at the same time in NetApps WAFL, which promptly engaged in a legal battle over patents. In parallel, many ZFS ideas are being reimplemented about half a decade later in Btrfs ...』
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What are the problems with #POSIX? 20201005,
by Kristian K,
blog.koehntopp.info/2020/10/05…
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Mike Gerdts
in reply to parvXtl • • •I think this part of the reported history is a bit wrong. While the announcement seems to indicate @bcantrill was involved, my days at Joyent made me believe that Mark Cavage and @dap were the driving forces behind Manta. From Mark’s telling in 2013 (web.archive.org/web/2013062900…) Jerry Jelinek wrote the first code and others pitched in on other things.
LXC was around in 2008 and I think virtuozzo was earlier than that. Saying zones and jails were the only containers in 2013 is not right.
Hello, Manta: Bringing Unix to Big Data - Blog - Joyent
web.archive.orgparvXtl
in reply to Mike Gerdts • • •Re: Manta, I read that as Bryan C being credited for the idea behind it, in form of an inspiration or a prediction. Is that impression incorrect?
@bcantrill @dap
Mike Gerdts
in reply to parvXtl • • •