From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Sep 28 6:30:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D9B37B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA67771; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:30:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Geoff Buckingham Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS References: <20000928130419.A2374@chuggalug.clues.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Sep 2000 15:30:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: Geoff Buckingham's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:04:19 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Geoff Buckingham writes: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/beta_caveats.html > > It seems rather badly hindered by the linux kernely. > > Was a FreeBSD port written off because of the GPL? I'm not sure what the point of your question is, but: 1) SGI decided to port XFS to Linux mainly to ride the wave. 2) there is no FreeBSD version because XFS was proprietary until the first beta was released a few days ago, so noone had access to information or source code that would allow them to write a FreeBSD XFS driver (short of reverse-engineering the IRIX driver) 3) it's interesting to note that SGI would probably have had an easier time porting XFS to FreeBSD than to Linux; most of the caveats listed on that page would not apply to FreeBSD. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message