From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 4 14:24: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCB94293 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:23:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id OAA05727; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:22:55 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA15008; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:22:55 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.241]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id OAA10592; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:22:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <389B5292.A7A8B6D4@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:28:34 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JFS and IBM References: <200002041957.OAA06981@bg-tc-ppp600.monmouth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Pechter wrote: > > Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file > systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. > > Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? You apparently haven't noticed the war of words going on on http://daily.daemonnews.org/ on this very topic? I think this is going to be our most "popular", or at least commented on, article to date. Greg Lehey has downloaded the code and looked at it. Despite my cheering and enthusiasm, he reports that we should wait until he actually produces something to pronounce him a hero. ;^) > Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs > would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component that would never see > "free" status. It's released under GPL, so it's still not free. It is available, though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message