From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 30 23:37:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFFD37B401; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.143.182.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.182]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00768; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:38:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Terry Lambert , m p , jasonf@citynet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD References: <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com> <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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