From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 8:12:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from arcadia.megadeb.org (cpe.atm0-0-0-218131.arcnxx5.customer.tele.dk [62.242.79.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F5A37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 08:12:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munish@runbox.com) Received: (from munish@localhost) by arcadia.megadeb.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f68FEXH01625 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:14:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from munish) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:14:33 +0200 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <20010708171433.B261@arcadia.megadeb.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010707132458.D75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com> <20010708090243.U75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010708022223.D271@arcadia.megadeb.org> <20010708143601.A80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010708115623.F271@arcadia.megadeb.org> <004201c107b6$9fd25ad0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010708101930.B7687@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010708101930.B7687@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:02:27AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > So why don't we get a FreeBSD port of XFS done "real soon now", see what > > kind of kernel mods we have to make, and talk nice to the SGI folks? If > > they're running into brick walls at every turn on the Linux path, why don't > > we make the FreeBSD path look like the yellow brick road? It may be a great > > way to get some SGI resources headed the way of FreeBSD. > > > > Great idea! Why don't you go do it? > > Seriously, the most valuable resource we have is our developers. > Those are the people who could make this happen. And they're all > running at 110% doing things that they know will make it into FreeBSD. > > Suggestions like this come up all the time. For all of them, the > answer is the same: we need a developer. :( > Someone on -hackers (I think) a while back said that they had talked to some SGI folks at a conference about getting a FreeBSD port. After some initial discussion, apparently at least the engineers were quite interested, though the execs were a bit scared of the BSD license. Those seem to be just rumours though, so I don't know how much there is to them. -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message