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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:38:11 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>, jasonf@citynet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com>
References:  <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com> <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> The OS/2 JFS was the basis for the "new" JFS 2 under AIX.  There would
> have been little point in releasing the sources for the "old" JFS,
> which is being phased out.

Which is a side issue to the fact that it's GPL'ed, and so
it is not possible to legally distribute a CDROM with a
kernel with the code linked into it.

Having seen both the AIX GFS implementation of JFS, and
the OS/2 JFS, I have to say that the AIX version is much
better code, IMO.  The "JFS 2" thing is inferior, IMO.

-- Terry

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