Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:11:49 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jrs@enteract.com (John Sconiers) Cc: wjv@cityip.co.za (Johann Visagie), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI releases XFS under GPL Message-ID: <v04220802b5fa37513a7a@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200009290115.SAA06192@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200009290115.SAA06192@usr05.primenet.com>
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At 1:15 AM +0000 2000/9/29, Terry Lambert wrote: > In any case, since you're familiar with XFS, you should be > able to see that metadata integrity is one aspect of XFS, and > is one aspect of soft updates, but the technologies could in > fact complement each other tremendously: they are future > partners, not competitors, since in the majority of cases, > what they bring to the table, other than metadata integrity > guarantees, is non-overlapping. Cool. I couldn't have hoped for a better answer. I'm looking forward to seeing your work on integrating these two filesystem technologies! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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