HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

Posted Jun 23, 2008 18:27 UTC (Mon) by vmole (guest, #111)
In reply to: HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem by trasz
Parent article: HP open-sources the Tru64 filesystem

It was:

This directory includes the source code for a second generation implementation of AdvFS, including the kernel modules, commands and utilities.

This is the code that was ported to HP-UX.

(From the notes on the sourceforge download page for the gen2 source)

It looks like it was ported but never productized, possibly[1] because HP realized that both HP-UX and Tru64 were dead ends: worth maintaining for the existing customer base, but not worth a lot of investment.

Steve

[1] meaning: complete wild-ass guess on my part.

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Hm.  Given how the IBM changed the strategy wrt AIX in recent few years - they switched from
considering AIX to be a dead end to be replaced by Linux to considering Linux "AIX for the
less fortunate" - HP might want to reconsider.

> Hm.  Given how the IBM changed the strategy wrt AIX in recent few years 
> - they switched from considering AIX to be a dead end to be replaced by
> Linux to considering Linux "AIX for the less fortunate" - HP might want
> to reconsider.

I don't know.. I do not see a large upswell in AIX purchases with that new formula. The number
of AIX systems is continuing to go down in relation to Solaris and Linux.

Does anyone know how hard would it be to get it running under HP-UX 11i?  Old HPPA machines
are fairly common and cheap, even here, in Poland; Alphas, on the other hand, are not.