Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:52:11 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <3A9A436B.821D0B01@newsguy.com> References: <200102072323.QAA27692@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I have been wondering about this legal issue lately. What is the law > > with regards to implementing XFS as a KLM for FreeBSD & shipping the > > source in contrib? It won't help people who are trying to make > > commercial products with embedded FreeBSD, but it might be useful for > > sysadmins. > > You won't be able to boot from it, unless you compile your own > kernel. This was pretty much the Soft Updates status, until > recently. I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8). Anyway, any serious user of FreeBSD recompiles the kernel to fine tune it. It is not a significant restriction. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@kzinti.bsdconspiracy.net Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney e' que nao tem mais cavalo bobo por ai'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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