Sun filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas against the entire NetApp product line, seeking both an injunction and monetary damages. "It's a responsive action we take not because we want to, but rather because we are forced to," said Mike Dillon, Sun's general counsel, in a blog posting. The Sun filing is in response to a NetApp suit filed against Sun September 5, also in Texas, alleging Sun's Zettabyte File System (ZFS) infringed on seven NetApp patents for its Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) and RAID technology. NetApp claims that Sun infringed its patents when it released ZFS in 2005 and then released code for it under an open source license this year, as Sun has done with much of its other software.

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