Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:27:55 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needsyour help)))a Message-ID: <3B48D05B.4727A224@witchspace.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090901340.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > So why don't we get a FreeBSD port of XFS done "real soon now", see what > > kind of kernel mods we have to make, and talk nice to the SGI folks? If > > they're running into brick walls at every turn on the Linux path, why don't > > we make the FreeBSD path look like the yellow brick road? It may be a great > > way to get some SGI resources headed the way of FreeBSD. > > I asked about this before... SGI isn't keen on Sun, Microsoft, IBM et al > "leeching" its intellectual property, so while the developers like the > idea, the lawyers are dead against it. Is it possible to have such filesystem compiled as a module to sidestep licensing issues? -- C-YA Jon <http://www.witchspace.com>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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