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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:37:32 -0800
From:      Sriram Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Parity Error <bootup@mail.ru>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com
Subject:   Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates
Message-ID:  <20020318163732.B30080@ichips.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:57:24PM -0800
References:  <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:57:24PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> There are heroic technical measures you could take to get
> around these restrictions (BeOS links GPL'ed code into GPL
> external handler programs, and then talks to them via IPC
> to get around the GPL on come code, for instance), but the
> effort of doing that is probably more than simply writing
> a drop-in replacement from scratch, which is more than just
> licensing the code.

Interesting idea.  You could create a generic server that you could
talk to other GPL'd stuff like ext3 or what not.  Performance would
be really awful though with the extra indirection..  

sri

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