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[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/03/12 20:27, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2012 21:17:43 I wrote:
> > Storing files contiguously on disk
>
> I forgot to mention the most hilarious aspect of this. The full title of the 
> patent is
>
> CONTIGUOUS FILE ALLOCATION IN AN EXTENSIBLE FILE SYSTEM 
>
> They had the nerve to even mention one prior art file system in the title 
> itself.
>
> Anders

Their lawyers would argue that Extensible != Extended

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3

Bob
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