Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:01:55 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <004001c13f1c$bbcc3100$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <20010916140843.A21982@xor.obsecurity.org> <3BA52C79.E1E247F5@mindspring.com> <3BA5419F.BF0C3E70@nipsi.de> <3BA555D8.D2C53387@mindspring.com>
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> Dennis Berger wrote: > > > > Then we maybe give the guys at sistina some support, cause they > > hold back the GFS-project for freebsd. > > A Projectleader told me if there will be more demand, they bump > > it to higher priority. > > > > GFS filesystem refer http://www.sistina.com > > I already provided them with patches against their top level > source tree which made all of the user space tools and > utilities compile on FreeBSD. It too me all of about 2 hours > to do all of them. > > They also informed me that one of their engineers has FreeBSD > support code for some of the kernel parts, but has not yet > committed it to their tree. > > My bigest problem with it right now is license, since a GPL > means that FreeBSD could not use it as a boot FS, which makes > the code useless to me. I can see how FreeBSD would not ship GFS support in the GENERIC kernel (which is GPL-clean), but I don't see why the choice of licence would prevent anyone from using it as a boot FS. This is of great importance to me, since I'm working on porting JFS over to FreeBSD, which is GPL'ed code. Not being able to have a root device which is journaled significantly reduces the appear of having a journaled filesystem available. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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