Re: Is Redhat GFS opensource?

[Jay Turner <jkt redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:18:16AM -0500, Brent M. Clements wrote:
> Good Morning All,
> 
> I'm a bit confused.
> 
> I go to the Redhat GFS webpage and it has a link to purchase redhat GFS
> for $2,200. But..the very first line of the description says this. "Red
> Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster
> file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> servers attached to a storage area network (SAN)."
> 
> So which is it? Is it a commercial closed source product which I must buy,
> or can I freely download the sources and modify? I can't seem to find
> Redhat's GFS sources anywhere.

Sorta all of the above.  The project is indeed now open-source and the
source code is available at http://sources.redhat.com/cluster.  At the same
time, you can purchase the software from us and get one-year of technical
support for the product as well
(http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rha/gfs/)

- jkt

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