Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:48:51 -0500 From: "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com> To: "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: johnh@isi.edu, FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Smallie, Scott" <Scott.Smallie@anheuser-busch.com> Subject: RE: Stackable filesystems and SunOS 4.1.1 Message-ID: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9017765F1@STLABCEXG011>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Lambert [SMTP:tlambert@primenet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 8:57 PM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: johnh@isi.edu; FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG; Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Smallie, > Scott > Subject: Re: Stackable filesystems and SunOS 4.1.1 > > > > 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. [Alton, Matthew] I apologize for being hopelessy vague and incomplete here. I was thinking about John Heidemann's work. His web page says that his primary development platform was SunOS 4.1.1 and that there is "unsatisfactory" code in Free- & Net- BSD. I downloaded the necessarily incomplete (license issues)code from his site and was pining away for the rest. > 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. [Alton, Matthew] I believe that Sun blessed this recently. The web page thanks Herr Somebody of Germany Sun for making these images available. [Alton, Matthew] Anyway, my Filesystem Development Odyssey (sp?) has now led me through sev- eral Dante-esque levels of La Inferno. I remain fixated upon the goal of obtaining as platform-independent a set of semantics as I can lay hands on. Is fleshing out the Heidemann work the Right Thing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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