From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 26 20:13:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4A537B401; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1R4BW838396; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:11:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:11:32 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, "(Zhiui Zhang)" , "(Sam Leffler)" , "(Jack Rusher)" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "(Daniel C. Sobral)" Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <20010226221132.C20550@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <200102270406.VAA11556@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200102270406.VAA11556@usr05.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:06:59AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some > > > other FS type because otherwise I can't boot. > > > > And, err, how hard is it to add support to the loader for this? > > > > It's read only which makes it simpler, and the code is well structured.. > > Not hard at all, if you are willing and able to GPL the loader > to make linking it with GPL'ed R/O XFS code legal to distribute. Or if you simply _WRITE_ some new code to read the XFS filesystem. Gee, if our loader groks ext2fs, it must be GPL'd, right? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message