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by mbreese
804 days ago
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Lustre started out as a research project in 1999, before commercialization and release. I assume this means more was publicly available about the design prior to the patents being filed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(file_system) Also, depending on the feature set listed in the patent, GPFS (which I remember using around 2000) was definitely around earlier than 2000. It was/is a clustered file system from IBM that had distributed storage nodes. Not sure how it did metadata though, which might not make it relevant to the patent, but the same ideas were definitely at work here. (And it being IBM, you can be sure those were patented too) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS |
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