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Submission + - NetBSD gets a journaling FFS (netbsd.org)

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: NetBSD's Simon Burge has added metadata journaling to the FFS (fast file system) code to NetBSD-current. The journaling code, known as WAPBL — Write Ahead Physical Block Logging — was originally written by Darrin B. Jewell for Wasabi Systems, Inc., and was contributed by Wasabi to the NetBSD community earlier this year. Wasabi has been shipping WAPBL-enabled products since 2003.
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Submission + - Yahoo! becomes Platinum Sponsor of Apache Software (shareholder.com)

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: Yahoo! published a press release, announcing that "it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)." In their company blog, Yahoo! points out their particular interest in Lucene as well as Hadoop and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo! also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)

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