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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 16:29:53 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reference for filesystem with btree layout?
Message-ID:  <19990525162953.J95827@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905250630.CAA07446@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu>; from Erez Zadok on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:30:39AM -0400
References:  <19990525062405.A95201@freebie.lemis.com> <199905250630.CAA07446@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu>

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On Tuesday, 25 May 1999 at  2:30:39 -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <19990525062405.A95201@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>> On Monday, 24 May 1999 at 13:12:37 -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
>>> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.990522154934.9491J-100000@cygnus.rush.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
> [...]
>> SGI is releasing the source of XFS.  This looks to be by far the most
>> interesting one.
>
> I just returned from LinuxExpo and this was discussed there.  It doesn't
> appear the sources will be available soon.  Someone from SGI said at least a
> few months: they need to cleanup any encumberances and figure out the
> licensing.

That sounds like a short period of time to me.

> Nevertheless, the linux community was excited about it, but still
> going ahead with plans for ext3fs.

I think that's wise.  There's always room for diversity.

Greg
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