Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:09:04 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010917120904.A31759@caldera.de> In-Reply-To: <3BA5C78B.FE14882@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:51:07AM -0700 References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <20010916140843.A21982@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA52C79.E1E247F5@mindspring.com> <3BA5419F.BF0C3E70@nipsi.de> <3BA555D8.D2C53387@mindspring.com> <20010917084023.A13990@caldera.de> <3BA5AF53.EE87658F@mindspring.com> <2 <3BA5C78B.FE14882@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:51:07AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding me. There is a SCSI III > primitive in the drafts that permits multiple masters to > range lock disk ranges to a a particular host. By doing > this, it permits multiple writers, by guarantees that each > host will not overlap a write. It also causes a writeback > invalidation for other masters, in order to effect a distributed > cache coherency protocol, without additiona daemons or hardware. Nice thing but irrelevant until SCSI III is actually in more widespread use. > > > Tell me how I can distribute a binary, where it is impossible for > > > all the code to be under GPL because some of the code is under > > > another license, yet statically link it with GPL'ed code? > > > > I never said that you can redistribute the binary. > > Can you explain "The first yes, the second not"? It's a bit > cryptic, then... You can redistribute a FreeBSD cdrom that links gfs into the kernel at install time. > The problem is that you have proposed a technical solution which > is politically impossible. You have to expect political reasons > why it is impossible to result from the suggestion. > > Basically, you are calling for volunteers to work on something > they won't be able to use, when it's done. I don't really care wether there is a FreeBSD (Open-)GFS version. If you want to create one I'm willing to cooperate wherever possible as I _really_ hate duplicated efforts. But I'm not calling for volunteers at all. > > You can link it withput problem - as long as you don't redistribute the > > linked product. > > I might as well use XFS, then, which is at least being ported to > FreeBSD... But XFS is not distributed filesystem. (So if the port is actually ongoing, could you point me to the source?) Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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