From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Sep 28 23:55:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EFD37B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA18322; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:54:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAiMa4VJ; Thu Sep 28 23:54:50 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA13410; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:55:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200009290655.XAA13410@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: XFS To: graichen@innominate.de Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:55:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Thomas Graichen" at Sep 29, 2000 06:41:22 AM 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-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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