From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 8 14: 3:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A8E37B408 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15JLhv-0003e5-00; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:03:11 +1200 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:03:11 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Munish Chopra , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: XFS (was: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)))a In-Reply-To: <004201c107b6$9fd25ad0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, 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. I asked about this before... SGI isn't keen on Sun, Microsoft, IBM et al "leeching" its intellectual property, so while the developers like the idea, the lawyers are dead against it. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message