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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> For fio, it likely doesn't matter.  Most people download the repository
> and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's
> no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence
> incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use).  It is a problem
> for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self
> inflicted wounds.

That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors.

Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at
lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem
here.

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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:48:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150119164857.GC12308@jeremy-HP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421682581.2080.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:49:41AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> For fio, it likely doesn't matter.  Most people download the repository
> and compile it themselves when building the tool. In that case, there's
> no licence violation anyway (all GPL issues, including technical licence
> incompatibility, manifest on distribution not on use).  It is a problem
> for the distributors, but they're well used to these type of self
> inflicted wounds.

That's true, but it is setting a bear-trap for distributors.

Might be better to keep the code repositories separate so at
lease people have a *chance* of noticing there's a problem
here.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15 17:43 [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps Milosz Tanski
2015-01-15 18:30 ` Jeff Moyer
2015-01-15 18:30   ` Jeff Moyer
2015-01-16 15:40   ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-15 22:31 ` [Lsf-pc] " Jan Kara
2015-01-16 15:44   ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-16 16:55     ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-16 16:55       ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19  3:49       ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-19  7:12         ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19  7:12           ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19  7:34           ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19  7:34             ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19 14:18             ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-19 15:31               ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-19 15:31                 ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-19 15:49                 ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19 15:49                   ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19 16:48                   ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2015-01-19 16:48                     ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 17:26                     ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19 17:26                       ` James Bottomley
2015-01-19 17:32                       ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 17:36                       ` Richard Sharpe
2015-01-19 20:00                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-19 20:00                       ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-19 16:10                 ` Volker Lendecke
2015-01-19 16:10                   ` Volker Lendecke
2015-01-19 16:20                   ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-19 16:20                     ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-19 16:50                     ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 16:50                       ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-23 23:15                     ` Steve French
2015-01-23 23:15                       ` Steve French
2015-01-24  2:17                       ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-24  2:17                         ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-24  5:53                         ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-24  5:53                           ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-24 23:00                           ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-24 23:00                             ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 19:33                 ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 19:33                   ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 23:07                   ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-20 23:07                     ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-20 23:22                     ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-20 23:26                       ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 23:26                         ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 23:30                         ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 23:30                           ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-20 23:53                           ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-20 23:53                             ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-21 21:17                             ` Jens Axboe
2015-01-23  0:03                               ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-23  0:10                               ` Milosz Tanski
2015-01-19 17:04               ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 17:04                 ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 17:18                 ` Richard Sharpe
2015-01-19 17:20                   ` Jeremy Allison
2015-01-19 17:20                     ` Jeremy Allison

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