From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 14:26:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dookie.local (pc1-reda3-0-cust222.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.105.80.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F10537B405 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: (qmail 46855 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2001 21:27:09 -0000 Received: from lexx.local (HELO witchspace.com) (192.168.0.1) by dookie.local with SMTP; 8 Jul 2001 21:27:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3B48D05B.4727A224@witchspace.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:27:55 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juha Saarinen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needsyour help)))a References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message