From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 20:15:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B6C15300 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-21.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.21]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA16336 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:15:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA34872 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:11:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199906150011.TAA34872@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux In-reply-to: Message from "David Schwartz" of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 04:53:23 PDT." <000001beb65c$812bf260$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:11:22 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "David Schwartz" writes: > > Forgive me for making an argument with which I do not agree, but I think I > can do it clearly: > > The XFS filesystem would not be useful alone, right? > > You would need the Linux kernel to use it. You would need to use *a* kernel to use it. SGI already uses it with Irix. So by the above argument, sendmail, XFree86, perl, etc, are all useless without a kernel to support them. Therefore they too must be infected with GPL? :-) Actually the big difference is that XFS is something that will be used *by* the kernel. While regular programs are something that *uses* the kernel. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message