From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 26 19:47:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6516937B491; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA08620; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:41:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAegaWWq; Mon Feb 26 20:41:15 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10815; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:46:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102270346.UAA10815@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:46:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), sam@errno.com (Sam Leffler), zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhiui Zhang), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Feb 26, 2001 08:41:47 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> I'm not sure that is true. You can always load a kld from loader(8). > > > > Not from an XFS root filesystem, you can't. > > I'm confused -- why do you make this statement? Is it because of > the GPL license that the XFS code is released under? If so, then > would something like the LGPL change that issue? Because you can't ditribute a FreeBSD kernel with GPL'ed code linked into it legally, due to the GPL disallowing distribution of the code with non-GPL'ed code. Yes, changing the license to the LGPL would fix the problem. Neither the LGPL nor the GPL really address the concerns about productization that are attributed to SGI, however; the LGPL much less so. My understanding is that they are worried about third party competition cannibalizing their market using their own code to do it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message