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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:11:32 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, "(Zhiui Zhang)" <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, "(Sam Leffler)" <sam@errno.com>, "(Jack Rusher)" <jar@integratus.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "(Daniel C. Sobral)" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Subject:   Re: Design a journalled file system
Message-ID:  <20010226221132.C20550@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102270406.VAA11556@usr05.primenet.com>
References:  <XFMail.010227142156.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200102270406.VAA11556@usr05.primenet.com>

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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

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