From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 16:37:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from crotus.sc.intel.com (scfdns02.sc.intel.com [143.183.152.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B313337B404; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ichips-ra.pdx.intel.com (ichips-ra-hme2.intel.com [10.7.5.35]) by crotus.sc.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.52 2002/03/01 19:20:46 root Exp $) with ESMTP id AAA11462; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:37:33 GMT Received: from plxu2525.pdx.intel.com (plxu2525.pdx.intel.com [10.7.50.43]) by ichips-ra.pdx.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: internal.m4,v 1.2 1998/11/09 19:18:37 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id QAA05476; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sramkris@localhost) by plxu2525.pdx.intel.com (8.11.6/8.9.1/d: client-ra.m4,v 1.1 1998/12/24 19:00:55 jamesw Exp jamesw $) id g2J0bWA30093; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:37:32 -0800 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:37:32 -0800 From: Sriram Ramkrishna To: Terry Lambert Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Hans Reiser , Greg Lehey , Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates Message-ID: <20020318163732.B30080@ichips.intel.com> References: <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <3C967EE4.5E60D36@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: <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:57:24PM -0800 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 Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:57:24PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > There are heroic technical measures you could take to get > around these restrictions (BeOS links GPL'ed code into GPL > external handler programs, and then talks to them via IPC > to get around the GPL on come code, for instance), but the > effort of doing that is probably more than simply writing > a drop-in replacement from scratch, which is more than just > licensing the code. Interesting idea. You could create a generic server that you could talk to other GPL'd stuff like ext3 or what not. Performance would be really awful though with the extra indirection.. sri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message