Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:14:33 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a Message-ID: <20010708171433.B261@arcadia.megadeb.org> In-Reply-To: <20010708101930.B7687@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0400 References: <20010707132458.D75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com> <20010708090243.U75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010708022223.D271@arcadia.megadeb.org> <20010708143601.A80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010708115623.F271@arcadia.megadeb.org> <004201c107b6$9fd25ad0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010708101930.B7687@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:02:27AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > So why don't we get a FreeBSD port of XFS done "real soon now", see what > > kind of kernel mods we have to make, and talk nice to the SGI folks? If > > they're running into brick walls at every turn on the Linux path, why don't > > we make the FreeBSD path look like the yellow brick road? It may be a great > > way to get some SGI resources headed the way of FreeBSD. > > > > Great idea! Why don't you go do it? > > Seriously, the most valuable resource we have is our developers. > Those are the people who could make this happen. And they're all > running at 110% doing things that they know will make it into FreeBSD. > > Suggestions like this come up all the time. For all of them, the > answer is the same: we need a developer. :( > Someone on -hackers (I think) a while back said that they had talked to some SGI folks at a conference about getting a FreeBSD port. After some initial discussion, apparently at least the engineers were quite interested, though the execs were a bit scared of the BSD license. Those seem to be just rumours though, so I don't know how much there is to them. -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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