Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:35:55 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <20011213093555.76629.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3C186EA5.4EA87656@mindspring.com>
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hi, (to -Terry) however, as you were saying that you would a JFS compatible code from scratch then porting their code to FreeBSD, if given the permission, would you do it... practically, it takes up a lot of effort to write the JFS code, I would say if you go and read the JFS code, and start out with the binary trees, you will know that we will not be able to write JFS compatible code by our gold release (5.0), and this and other filesystems would be a major change not a minor one. It is better to port JFS then re-inventing the wheel, and we will get a lot of help from outsiders. There has been quite an argument about this at daemonnews, go to: http://daily.daemonnews.org/ and search for JFS. As there has been discussion about this at freebsd-fs mailing list also. The reason i started this discuss if starting out this project would be good or not - from a technical point of view, and not from a political point of view about IBM. Forgive me for my bluntness but no offense. As i have also said, porting a thing massive as JFS would be hard for me alone, and i need help from fellow FreeBSD developers. Thanks =Hiten =<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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