From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 13:16:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.symmetron.com (mail.symmetron.com [206.239.186.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4411414BD4 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from John.Shue@symmetron.com) Received: from mail (mail.symmetron.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.symmetron.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA208 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:19:09 -0400 Reply-To: From: John.Shue@symmetron.com (John A. Shue) To: Subject: SGI releases XFS to Open Source Community Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:19:09 -0400 Message-ID: <00ce01beb059$d5bec5e0$42baefce@mail.symmetron.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A friend of mine (he's a Linux guy) pointed me to a recent article in InfoWorld about SGI making an announcement at the Linux Expo. SGI is going to release the code to XFS, SGI's journaling, 64-bit filesystem. SGI's press release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/may/xfs.html I just did a mail archive search on all the freebsd lists where I thought discussion of this event would be. I was surprised to find nothing relevant. (Although, I did find a few emails from Nov. '96 and also a few from Apr. '97 saying they wish FreeBSD had XFS). Is FreeBSD going to wait for Linux to port XFS and run XFS under our Linux emulator? Or is FreeBSD going to create a development group to port the XFS to FreeBSD? -john --------------- John A. Shue 4000 Legato Road, Suite 600 Fairfax, VA 22033 (703) 591-5559 (703) 591-6337 FAX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message