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From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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hi,

(to -Terry)
however, as you were saying that you would a JFS 
compatible code from scratch then porting their
code to FreeBSD, if given the permission, would you
do it... practically, it takes up a lot of effort to
write the JFS code, I would say if you go and read the
JFS code, and start out with the binary trees, you
will
know that we will not be able to write JFS compatible
code by our gold release (5.0), and this and other
filesystems would be a major change not a minor one.

It is better to port JFS then re-inventing the wheel,
and we will get a lot of help from outsiders.

There has been quite an argument about this at
daemonnews, go to:

http://daily.daemonnews.org/ and search for JFS.

As there has been discussion about this at freebsd-fs
mailing list also.  The reason i started this 
discuss if starting out this project would be good
or not - from a technical point of view, and not from
a political point of view about IBM. Forgive me for
my bluntness but no offense.

As i have also said, porting a thing massive as JFS
would be hard for me alone, and i need help from
fellow FreeBSD developers.

Thanks
=Hiten
=<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>


=====
-Hiten,

Thank You,
Yours Sincerely,
Hiten Pandya,
<hiten@uk.freebsd.org>
<http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>

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