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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: The VIVA file system (fwd)
To: eric@ms.uky.edu
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:05:29 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To:  <9608261858.aa24476@t2.t2.mscf.uky.edu> from "eric@ms.uky.edu" at Aug 26, 96 06:58:09 pm
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> > I know that I saw the paper at least two years and 5 months ago, if not
> > before that -- I *think* I saw it the week it came out; there was a
> > presentation by one of the grad students involved to the USL FS gurus:
> > Art Sabsevitch, Wen Ling Lu, etc., of the code on SVR4.
> 
> I was the sole implementor of all versions of Viva.  No other grad 
> students were involved at the time...

Did you do the presentation?  I'm sure it was a U of KY grad student
who was interning at USL.

> Are you talking about VIFS or VXFS?   I seem to remember that
> VXFS was the Veritas File System.   Veritas had nothing to do 
> with Viva.  Perhaps you are confusing the two.

VIVA in general, VXFS in the specific instance of why an SVR4 UFS
comparison isn't really a strong comparison.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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