Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:11:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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: <20010731161119.L80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:38:11PM -0700 References: <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com> <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com>
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On Monday, 30 July 2001 at 23:38:11 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. The GPL is also a side issue to what I was talking about. But of course it's legally possible to distribute a CD-ROM with a kernel. We just need to change the license. The issue here is not of legality, but that we're not prepared to change the license. > 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. This makes no sense. My AIX box runs JFS2. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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