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ChangeLog: Sahana Project, Ted Ts'o, receive FSF Awards
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CommentsAs we reported last year, Sahana began development during the relief efforts in Southeast Asia after the tsunami of 2004. The founding team of Sri Lankan developers from the Lanka Software Foundation released the first version of the software after three days of work, and have continued to develop it since. The software is designed to handle problems common to disaster relief, such as searching for missing people and coordinating volunteers. Sahana is now being used by the Sri Lankan Red Cross and the Sri Lankan Government Disaster Management Center, as well as nongovernmental organizations such as Bicolrelief in the Philippines and Humanitarian Emergency Logistics and Preparedness, a worldwide humanitarian relief agency. Sahana was also used in Strong Angel III, a test of civil and military disaster response in the United States.
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| Sahana project members with Richard Stallman - click to enlarge |
In presenting the award at the FSF annual general meeting, Richard Stallman, FSF president, said, "We were inspired to create this award when we heard of the tremendous good the Sahana project was able to achieve through the use of free software."
On hand to receive the award were several members of Sahana's founding team, including Chamindra de Silva, project lead; lead developers Pradeeper Dharmendra, Ravindra de Silva, and Mifan Careem; Louiqa Raschid, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, and Rent Hailpern, head of the IBM Crisis Response Team.
Speaking to Linux.com, de Silva said, "Sahana would not be possibly if not for the many thousands, if not tens of thousands, of free and open source components that have been built over the years. We strongly believe that free software is an excellent vehicle to deliver transparent tools and global public goods for humanitarian problems, and I hope this encourages more contributions to this domain." De Silva thanked the Sahana community, saying, "This award is a credit to all these people as well."
Currently employed by the IBM Linux Technology Center, Ts'o has been a contributor to the Linux kernel since September 1991. "During that time, Linux was something I did just for fun," Ts'o told Linux.com, "and it also scored a lot of free trips to various conferences. I worked on the serial device driver, and the Linux tty layer (including support for POSIX.1 job control), ext2/3, and the userspace utilities for ext2/3, e2fsprogs." More recently, Ts'o has been working on the ext4 filesystem, the successor to ext3. Ts'o is also a Debian developer, maintaining some 20 packages, including some related to his early work.
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| Ted Ts'o with Richard Stallman - click to enlarge |
In addition to his work on GNU/Linux, Ts'o has been development team leader for Kerberos and Open Network Computing Remote Procedure (ONC RPC). He remains an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he has chaired or co-chaired several working groups.
Accepting the award, Ts'o said that his work has "been great fun. But I have always been proud of the fact that people have been able to use the work that I have done to advance the cause of free software."
The Award for the Advancement of Free Software has been given each year since 1998 to an individual nominated by the community. Past winners of the award include Larry Wall, Miguel de Icaza, Lawrence Lessig, and Alan Cox. Other finalists this year were Wietse Venema for his creation of the Postfix mail system and his work on security tools, and Yukihiro Matsumoto for his work in designing the Ruby programming language.
2006 was the first year that the Award for Projects of Social Benefit was given. Other projects considered for the award were Project Gutenberg, which has provided free texts since 1971, and One Laptop Per Child, which is developing inexpensive computers for use in developing nations.
Bruce Byfield is a computer journalist who writes regularly for NewsForge, Linux.com, and IT Manager's Journal.
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Why don't you trot out some numbers that do say something about code base stability or developer reliability,.... dick.
The numbers say that Reiser4 is far and away better than Ext4.
Reiser3 = ReiserFS is not the topic of interest, but you can rave about it if you want.
Then check out some info on Reiser4 -- I hope you know the difference.
And, in any case:
The fact that a piece of software did not work well in one particular kernel (in this case, very old) would not be surprising to anyone.
And, as is usual, when the problem was found, someone reported the bug(s) and someone else, fixed it.
No news here sunshine. This is simply how code develops.
Idiot = person who prefers instability to stability
Idiot = person who cares not about data - personal or otherwise
Idiot = person who bandies the word "idiot" without researching it's true meaning
Idiot = person who simplifies and trivialises a problem that is neither simple nor trivial
Idiot = person who buys a Ferrari because of it's top-speed, and uses it to commute to work in rush hour traffic.
Neither were your incomplete benchmarks. You're the one who turned it into snide accusations against Ted Ts'o.
And you're still an anonymous coward.
"Don't use linux kernel 2.4.16 or earlier for reiserfs operations, as many of those releases contain critical bugs, some of the most serious of which are not in reiserfs but affect reiserfs."
You'll see a similar warning on screen as well, when you mount a ReiserFS partition. That warning alone is enough reason for me not to use it, not when my on-disk data is at risk.
It's an off-handed way to say "we did things our own way, but found out only after we released it that our code didn't play well with the rest of the Linux kernel."
As for "destroying Hans Reiser", are you somehow implying that Mr. Ts'o has something to do with the charges against him? If you are, take it elsewhere; Linux.com is no place for that kind of accusation. If not, I suggest you contrast the histories of Messrs. Reiser and Ts'o w.r.t. Linux kernel development.
They are not incomplete (I guess they don't have the superbowl results included yet).
They are also not as off-topic as you claim.
And you're still an anonymous coward.
Why don't you do your homework and read the full article that was linked to.
In that article you will find a further link to this file:
<a href="http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/benchmarks-raw.txt" title="150m.com">http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/benchmarks-ra<nobr>w<wbr></nobr> .txt</a 150m.com>
READ IT.
(I mention that the bonnie++ are the raw results, ie, no changes except in formatting.)
Notice the CPU %'s for reiser4 and ext4 are similar.
reiser4 linux-2.6.20-mm1 test 1
cd /
cp -r<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/src/test/linux-*<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6
REAL:154.98 USER:0.26 SYS:9.84 CPU:6%
cd<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6;du --max-depth=0;cd /
708421 692:MB
mkdir<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2;cd<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2
cp -r<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/linux-*<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2
REAL:84.28 USER:0.24 SYS:13.66 CPU:16%
tar -czf 6.tar.gz linux-*
REAL:84.57 USER:42.21 SYS:11.04 CPU:62%
mkdir<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy3
tar -xzf 6.tar.gz -C<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy3
REAL:31.35 USER:6.53 SYS:6.91 CPU:42%
rm -fr<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/*
REAL:66.68 USER:0.16 SYS:16.04 CPU:24%
umount<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/sda6
ext4 (extents) linux-2.6.20-mm1 test 1
cd /
cp -r<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/src/test/linux-*<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6
REAL:162.74 USER:0.22 SYS:9.47 CPU:5%
cd<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6;du --max-depth=0;cd /
825740 806:MB
mkdir<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2;cd<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2
cp -r<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/linux-*<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy2
REAL:65.02 USER:0.20 SYS:9.10 CPU:14%
tar -czf 6.tar.gz linux-*
REAL:67.23 USER:42.10 SYS:6.85 CPU:72%
mkdir<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy3
tar -xzf 6.tar.gz -C<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/copy3
REAL:37.49 USER:6.57 SYS:4.96 CPU:30%
rm -fr<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/6/*
REAL:27.47 USER:0.09 SYS:4.43 CPU:16%
cd<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/;umount<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/sda6
Why I bothered I don't know, as you are most likely some perverse propaganda shill.
Ted Ts'o -- Hans Reiser
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 27, 2007 11:48 AMThe following table summarizes just how good Reiser4 compression is (encryption has not been tested). Column one measures the time taken to complete the bonnie++ benchmarking test (run with the parameters bonnie++ -n128:128k:0)
Column two, Disk Usage: measures the amount of disk used to store 655MB of raw data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources).
<a href="http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm" title="150m.com">http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks<nobr>.<wbr></nobr> htm</a 150m.com> (Update)
<a href="http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm" title="domaindlx.com">http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/resources/fs-ben<nobr>c<wbr></nobr> hmarks.htm</a domaindlx.com>
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