From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 30 23:41:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AE437B405 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4AE616ACC3; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:11:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:11:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Terry Lambert , m p , jasonf@citynet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010731161119.L80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com> <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B665253.1D8A22D5@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:38:11PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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