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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:

> Tnks Terry!
> 
> So does anyone know how much is VXFS for FreeBSD (assuming that is
> available) ?
> 

It's not available for *BSD.  The reasons cited were ...

1) It's a large porting task, fs/vnode semantics vary quite a bit between
Unix implementations.

2) They want a larger market or someone to fund the development.

Regards,


Mike Hancock