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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:12:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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that would be nice i suppose.. :-)

BTW, where is this non-GPL code.. i wouldn't mind
putting my hands on it and working on it...

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

--- Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > OK, I load the kernel from the JFS.  I mount the
> root FS, which
> > > is a JFS.  I read the module "jfs.ko" from the
> JFS so that I can
> > > mount the root FS, which is a JFS, so I can read
> the module "jfs.ko"
> > > from the JFS so that I can mount the root FS,
> which is a JFS, so I
> > > can read the module "jfs.ko" from the JFS so
> that I can mount the
> > > root FS, which is a JFS, so I can...
> > >
> > > Do you see the problem yet?
> > 
> > Libstand (and hence the loader) could be extended
> to allow reading
> > files from jfs without using any GPL'ed code. For
> example our loader
> > can load modules from the FAT even though we do
> not have any M$ code.
> > :) Alternatively, /boot could be placed on
> separate filesystem, which
> > could be ufs or anything else supported by the
> loader.
> 
> Patches appreciated.
> 
> Note that if you do a read-only JFS, you are more
> than half way there
> to a n0n-GPL'ed implementation, so you might as well
> finish it off,
> instead of porting the IBM code.
> 
> -- Terry


=====
-Hiten,

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

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