From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Sep 17 3: 9:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from ns.caldera.de (ns.caldera.de [212.34.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3E437B445 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 03:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hch@localhost) by ns.caldera.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f8HA94j32272; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:09:04 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:09:04 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dennis Berger , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010917120904.A31759@caldera.de> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA5C78B.FE14882@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:51:07AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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