Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:16:53 -0800 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Dan <dan-freebsd-fs@ourbrains.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will XFS be adopted Message-ID: <1226254613.76915.1.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20081109174303.GA5146@ourbrains.org> References: <20081109174303.GA5146@ourbrains.org>
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On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 12:43 -0500, Dan wrote: > With XFS being adopted by Linux now for a number of years, I wonder why > it hasn't been by FreeBSD. It's a great FS that can be resized on the > fly which makes it a perfect journaling FS with volume managers. Anybody > know? Considering that XFS is under the GPL (totally incompatible with the BSD license) and that ZFS _is_ being adopted by FreeBSD, at least experimentally, there's no good reason to adopt XFS and at least one good reason not to do so. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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