From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Sep 17 16:13: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8862037B413 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id DB34F431; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:12:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:12:52 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010918001252.R15600@tao.org.uk> References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <20010916140843.A21982@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA52C79.E1E247F5@mindspring.com> <3BA5419F.BF0C3E70@nipsi.de> <3BA555D8.D2C53387@mindspring.com> <004001c13f1c$bbcc3100$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3BA564AF.BF642E23@mindspring.com> <003b01c13fb8$6466b6f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JB7KW7Ey7eB5HOHs" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003b01c13fb8$6466b6f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:36:12PM -0400 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 --JB7KW7Ey7eB5HOHs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:36:12PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Since I have generally been working on FreeBSD based embedded > > systems for the last four years of my career, and could not > > use GFS under the current license in this context, it makes > > doing the work rather unintersting to me. It also makes my > > employers uninterested in funding my coding time on such a > > project. >=20 > This makes it totally different. The three scenarios you outline above a= re > only problematic when you're trying to support a pre-packaged distribution > that supports GFS out-of-the box, as the GPL licence "infects" the entire > product. They do not apply to a sysadmin who chooses to switch a product= ion > system from UFS to GFS (or JFS) and support it internally. That's true, but unless the install tools support it, it makes it much more difficult for the sysadmin to get the root file system off the ground. Joe --JB7KW7Ey7eB5HOHs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjumg3QACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYtzwCguDToFADq/SOuEgkFcRbxFkln XkIAniFpQtB2YIO70FAd1VHPYU7idrQR =C54n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JB7KW7Ey7eB5HOHs-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message