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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 06:53:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        koshy@india.hp.com (A Joseph Koshy)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, brandon@roguetrader.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, koshy@postbox.india.hp.com
Subject:   Re: Known problems with async ufs?
Message-ID:  <199709250653.XAA08542@usr03.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709250428.VAA18568@palrel1.hp.com> from "A Joseph Koshy" at Sep 25, 97 09:53:49 am

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> > They addressed this somewhat by guaranteeing that metadata writes would
> > be ordered.  It's unclear whether this infringes on USL's Delayed
> > Ordered Writes patent.
> 
> EXT2FS has been around for a long time.  Wouldn't the DOW patent be 
> invalid on the grounds of ``prior art'' if the technology was similar?

No.  1993.

> Just curious.

No problem.  DOw was not in the initial implementation.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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