From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Feb 26 3:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9B237B491; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 03:55:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p47-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.112]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA10807; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:55:03 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A9A436B.821D0B01@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:52:11 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jack Rusher , Terry Lambert , Sam Leffler , Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system References: <200102072323.QAA27692@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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