From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 03:18:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA23740 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caipfs.rutgers.edu (root@caipfs.rutgers.edu [128.6.37.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA23735 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jenolan.caipgeneral (jenolan.rutgers.edu [128.6.111.5]) by caipfs.rutgers.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA01191; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:18:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jenolan.caipgeneral (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA03221; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:16:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:16:55 -0400 Message-Id: <199704171016.GAA03221@jenolan.caipgeneral> From: "David S. Miller" To: bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net CC: spidaman@well.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199704170952.MAA29533@shadows.aeon.net> (message from mika ruohotie on Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:52:46 +0300 (EET DST)) Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: mika ruohotie Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:52:46 +0300 (EET DST) yeah, if it'd be possible to get xfs to freebsd, i'd die happily... but, question is, is it? i can not help my knowledge into that project, should there ever exist such project, but i'm more than happily offering machine or few as a test platform. XFS is SGI's bread and butter, if you write a freely available version of it you'd: 1) Have to reverse engineer it completely 2) Would have a building full of lawyers on your ass I know because I investigated such a thing ad nauseum while I was hacking Linux at SGI, and that was the final word. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><