Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:11:54 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060927171154.GA60529@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <347fc4490609270526k4ca31a00nc00d82c7d1d279d4@mail.gmail.com> <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:07:16PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > krishnamurthy holla wrote: > > I want to port cramfs to freebsd-6.1 ; can anybody give me > > some tips about how to port.. > > I think porting cramfs is not a good idea. It's GPL'ed, > doesn't fully support POSIX semantics, and has severe > limitations (16 MB maximum file size, 256 MB maximum file > system size). > > It is probably better to design a new file system from > scratch (and make it BSD-licensed). For running on a flash card, I'm not sure those limits are unreasonable. Also, if you do a implementation from the public data in the headers, is that code also under GPL?
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