Date: 28 Sep 2000 15:30:40 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <xzpu2b0fxtr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Geoff Buckingham's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:04:19 %2B0100" References: <20000928130419.A2374@chuggalug.clues.com>
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Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> writes: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/beta_caveats.html > > It seems rather badly hindered by the linux kernely. > > Was a FreeBSD port written off because of the GPL? I'm not sure what the point of your question is, but: 1) SGI decided to port XFS to Linux mainly to ride the wave. 2) there is no FreeBSD version because XFS was proprietary until the first beta was released a few days ago, so noone had access to information or source code that would allow them to write a FreeBSD XFS driver (short of reverse-engineering the IRIX driver) 3) it's interesting to note that SGI would probably have had an easier time porting XFS to FreeBSD than to Linux; most of the caveats listed on that page would not apply to FreeBSD. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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