Folks, I understand that Sun/Oracle has a number of patents on ZFS. I am wondering what are their major patents.
1. The fact that ZFS uses blocks at the lowest level? Any file system would use blocks. 2. The fact that ZFS offers compression? The compression algorithms themselves do not belong to ZFS. 3. Is it how ZFS does deduplication? What is so special about it? 4. Is it how ZFS creates snapshots? 5. Is it the fact that ZFS stripes data across different devices in a raid group? Most of the things appear to be too generic to be patented. Makes me wonder where exactly are their major patents? Thank you in advance for your enlightenment. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-code
