Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:55:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: graichen@innominate.de Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <200009290655.XAA13410@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <news2mail-8r1dii$214$2@mate.bln.innominate.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Sep 29, 2000 06:41:22 AM
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> > 2) there is no FreeBSD version because XFS was proprietary until the > > first beta was released a few days ago, so noone had access to > > information or source code that would allow them to write a > > FreeBSD XFS driver (short of reverse-engineering the IRIX driver) > > just a small correction: the XFS code is public available since > end of march this yaer not only since the beta I originally found the code by going "URL fishing" at about that time, before they even had the links on the main web site up. At the time, it was only a very small portion of the code, since most of it was not "sanitized" of copyrighted material from USL, etc.. This appears to be the first release of function, non-crippled, non-fragmentary code that would be usable for anything like a port. 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-fs" in the body of the message
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