Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:52:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> 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: <3BA5E3E2.AB247A2C@mindspring.com> 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> <20010917120904.A31759@caldera.de>
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Nice thing but irrelevant until SCSI III is actually in more > widespread use. Seagate supports it today. I'm 65% certain IBM does as well; the issue with SCSI III is that they haven't been able to make the optical parts fast enough (same as the issue with 10Gbit ethernet, which you can buy from HP today). > You can redistribute a FreeBSD cdrom that links gfs into the kernel > at install time. Everything in the GPL screams that you can't distribute code intended to specifically work with GPL code, which is not under the GPL. In other words, it's not legal to distribute a "binary weapon" type distribution to try to skirt the GPL. The FSF went to court on a crypto interface over this, and they won. I can find the specific cites, if you insist. > > 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 were proposing this as an alternative to GFS, in a response to a posting where I identified GFS' licensing problems. You have a competing GFS effort. > > 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?) See the -hackers list archive, where it was discussed recently. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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