From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Mar 15 16:17: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60F937B41F for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:16:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0278.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.23] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16m1sB-0006rf-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:16:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C928EC6.14363297@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:16:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates References: <3C910C57.71C2D823@mindspring.com> <20020315065651.02637@helen.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <3C923C91.454D7710@mindspring.com> <1562810000.1016224776@tiny> <3C928D21.404EA11D@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > This is the write-ahead log. The only difference is where it's > stored: in memory or on disk. [ ... ] > See also claims 1, 6, 23, and 44. If this is still confusing, consider whether or not you would have to cite this patent if you were filing a patent for what ReiserFS does (I think the answer is "yes"). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message