Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:00:42 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JFS and IBM Message-ID: <v04210105b4c0fb4b1ebd@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200002041957.OAA06981@bg-tc-ppp600.monmouth.com> References: <200002041957.OAA06981@bg-tc-ppp600.monmouth.com>
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At 2:57 PM -0500 2/4/00, Bill Pechter wrote: >Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling >file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. > >Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? People outside the expo heard about it too, and there has been an active thread in hackers about this already. Review that thread, so we don't have to go over all the same comments again. There is also something about it at http://daily.daemonnews.org/, which had some interesting pointers. >Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs >would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component that would never see >"free" status. Actually it didn't surprise me too much. IBM realizes it makes it's money in selling hardware and services. They don't have a whole lot to lose by making this JFS source code available, and they might have a fair amount to gain, as they position themselves as a good company to contact for "linux support services". --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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