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From: eric@ms.uky.edu
Subject: Re: The VIVA file system (fwd)
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 19:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608262305.QAA23479@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 26, 96 04:05:29 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.

Nope.   It is possible that some grad student did a presentation without
a demo, but they weren't involved with the development or implementation
of Viva.

> > 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.

Ok, but we never released *any* results from our UFS implementation.
I determined that 1) I couldn't release the code, and 2) UFS on SysV
was crippled and didn't make a good comparison.   We dropped it totally
at that point and I picked up a source copy of BSDI.

Eric