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Todo

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  • more technical details?
  • add template thing as in NTFS
  • add links and this to more overview pages: xxx list
  • make it look more like other FS articles

Notes

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about historical information:

  • date of first release comes from 9fans announcement and the fact that sourcesdump starts at 2002-12-12.
  • date of fossil becoming default filesystem (summer 2003) can be found in the plan9 wiki.

Infobox

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Fossil
Developer(s)Bell Labs
Full nameFossil
Introduced2002 with Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Features
Transparent
compression
Yes

GoogleFS ?

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There is no an explanation of what Fossil has to do with GoogleFS, neither in this article nor in the GoogleFS article. Aside from mutual links in articles concerning two file systems, I see no relationship. 15:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)