From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Sep 16 19: 8:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149A237B40B for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.93.38.74]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010917020829.NZAG16065.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:08:29 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8H21gu55340; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:01:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004001c13f1c$bbcc3100$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Cc: References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <20010916140843.A21982@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA52C79.E1E247F5@mindspring.com> <3BA5419F.BF0C3E70@nipsi.de> <3BA555D8.D2C53387@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:01:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > Dennis Berger wrote: > > > > Then we maybe give the guys at sistina some support, cause they > > hold back the GFS-project for freebsd. > > A Projectleader told me if there will be more demand, they bump > > it to higher priority. > > > > GFS filesystem refer http://www.sistina.com > > I already provided them with patches against their top level > source tree which made all of the user space tools and > utilities compile on FreeBSD. It too me all of about 2 hours > to do all of them. > > They also informed me that one of their engineers has FreeBSD > support code for some of the kernel parts, but has not yet > committed it to their tree. > > My bigest problem with it right now is license, since a GPL > means that FreeBSD could not use it as a boot FS, which makes > the code useless to me. I can see how FreeBSD would not ship GFS support in the GENERIC kernel (which is GPL-clean), but I don't see why the choice of licence would prevent anyone from using it as a boot FS. This is of great importance to me, since I'm working on porting JFS over to FreeBSD, which is GPL'ed code. Not being able to have a root device which is journaled significantly reduces the appear of having a journaled filesystem available. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message