Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 01:56:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com (Alton, Matthew) Cc: johnh@isi.edu, FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Scott.Smallie@anheuser-busch.com Subject: Re: Stackable filesystems and SunOS 4.1.1 Message-ID: <199806180156.SAA07446@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9017765EF@STLABCEXG011> from "Alton, Matthew" at Jun 17, 98 06:21:37 pm
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> Sun Microsystems has apparently freed the 4.1.1 binary distribution. It is > available from: > http://doener.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ > > It is conceivable that Sun may be persuaded to release the sources for a fee > a la SCO's "Ancient Versions" source license. If so, we FreeBeasties could > benifit from the mature SunOS 4.1.1 stackable filesystem code. Maybe we > should pester them. This distrubtion is *only* for Sun3 hardware. The distributor admits to taking the risk upon himself of distributing the binary images without the legal consent of Sun Microsystems. The SunOS code contains a VFS implementation, but does not contain a stacking vnode architecture (even though Rosental's stacking research was under the auspices of Sun Microsystems). I think you are reading too much into SunOS's "union" and "translucent" mount capabilities, which are less related to a stacking architecture than they are to special one-off implementation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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