On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Sagnik Choudhury <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a third year undergrad student at Hyderabad, India and I have a little > idea. Given ARC is close to optimal, as somebody rightly pointed out, a > patented algorithm will be difficult to ship. How about LRU-K(2)? Not > difficult to implement and performs far better than LRU. If this is okay, > I'm in.
ARC, as implemented in ZFS, is available as open-source via the CDDL. It even ships with FreeBSD 7.0+. The CDDL includes patent provisions that allow it to be used by others, and it is compliant with the BSDL. Depending on how you want to integrate it into the system, you may be able to use that. -- Freddie Cash [email protected]
