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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
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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

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