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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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