From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 11:15:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BB516A41F; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:15:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B731F43D5A; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:15:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815E7440CE; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (krusty [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14955-03; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (p50912389.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.145.35.137]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB259440A4; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EECB20094B; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29815-14; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2772D200EAA; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:17 +0100 (CET) From: Matthias Andree To: Craig Rodrigues In-Reply-To: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> (Craig Rodrigues's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:19:08 -0500") References: <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:15:17 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:15:23 -0000 Craig Rodrigues writes: > Read-only XFS support has been committed to FreeBSD-CURRENT. > Write access to XFS is not supported at this time. > The XFS for FreeBSD source code is based off of GPL'd sources > provided by SGI. Hm. Does this mean that FreeBSD's XFS implementation is GPL'd like ext2fs is? If so, allow me a question why XFS was chosen in preference to ext3fs? Ext3fs appears to have some advantages, easy migration from and to ext2fs, shrinkable, data journalling, data ordering (write data blocks before the file metadata is written) and so on. I don't mean this should become an advocacy discussion, as XFS surely has advantages, too, real-time capability and so on - but ext2fs is already there and has write support. Just curious. -- Matthias Andree