Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 20:07:15 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, bpechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, rcarter@pinyon.org Subject: Re: JFS and IBM Message-ID: <20000205030715.641175B@pinyon.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Sat, 05 Feb 2000 13:03:45 %2B1030." <20000205130345.D9737@freebie.lemis.com>
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%[moved to -fs] % %On Friday, 4 February 2000 at 15:28:34 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: %> Bill Pechter wrote: %>> %>> Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file %>> systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. %>> %>> Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? %> %> You apparently haven't noticed the war of words going on on %> http://daily.daemonnews.org/ on this very topic? I think this is going %> to be our most "popular", or at least commented on, article to date. % %There was also a discussion in -fs, so I'm following up there. % %> Greg Lehey has downloaded the code and looked at it. Despite my %> cheering and enthusiasm, he reports that we should wait until he %> actually produces something to pronounce him a hero. ;^) % %Damn it, you keep mentioning my name. I'm certainly no hero based on %what I've done or propose to do. For an update, taking in what phk %had to say the other day: this is the OS/2 version, which has had the %dependencies on the VM system removed. I consider it likely that, as %a result, performance will be disappointing. Also I haven't seen any %documentation which explains how it works. Given the size of the code %base, this would make it quite a challenge. Maybe somebody else more %stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hheroic than I wants to have a go. Look folks, is it too hard to understand that an OS/2 filesystem released as "Opensource" might not make any sense at all to burn up anybody's time, especially people like Greg who have actually contributed *something*!!!. Does it look like the IBM mamaship is finally clueing into marketing? Why yes it does! Does it look like the thundering herds (hurds) are going to run this into another half to several megabytes a day of mindless drivel on the usual ramifications of a nonexistent technology on a nonexistent marketplace... Why yes it does! So get over it. And lay off Greg. Russell %Greg %-- %Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key %See complete headers for address and phone numbers % % %To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org %with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message % To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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