Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:38:55 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Eivind Hestnes <eivind.hestnes@stabbursmoen.no> Subject: Re: Support for XFS in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030702123855.0a3534f5.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0306FE.37E35D77@mindspring.com> References: <000b01c3408e$b9fd1310$2401a8c0@xoanan> <3F0306FE.37E35D77@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:23:26 -0700 Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Eivind Hestnes wrote: > > Is XFS ported to FreeBSD? If not, what's the status? > > [ Let's assume this isn't the usual XFS troll. Here is all the > historical information about all previous discussions. If you > want to discuss this yet again because you are unwilling to > take this at face value, and are unwilling to read the mailing > list archives, followups are set to FreeBSD-chat. All replies > to all followups posted to another FreeBSD-* list will be > redirected to FreeBSD-chat ] > > -- > > It is not ported. > > Some people have tried to start a porting project in the past, > but that project has so far failed to produce anything, even a > simple port of the "newfs" program. Well, that is a bit unfair. We haven't _released_ anything, but mkfs.xfs port was something we did first, along with the rest of xfsprogs suite. The XFS module was compiling and linking and even was able to mount XFS filesystem all the way with initial (clean) journal check, root inode retrieval, etc. Unfortunately the lack of available time resulted in this project slipping through cracks. There seems to be a new interest in getting it off the ground though. > Note: SCO is suing people who have touched Linux code with code > from commercial OS's derived from System V. SGI's IRIX, from > which XFS comes, is derived from System V, so there is some legal > risk involved to anyone doing a port: SCO may sue you, too. I > don't know if this effects the projects previous statements. > True, this is a danger. There was a certain amount of similarity in XFS sources between FreeBSD kernel internals and Irix interfaces which arguably can be traced to common Unix roots of both systems. SCO might consider XFS theirs some day :) -- Alexander Kabaev
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