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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:12:28 -0500
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20051216151228.GA34670@crodrigues.org>
In-Reply-To: <m37ja59ttm.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <20051213151908.GA26821@crodrigues.org> <m37ja59ttm.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hm. Does this mean that FreeBSD's XFS implementation is GPL'd like
> ext2fs is? If so, allow me a question why XFS was chosen in preference
> to ext3fs?

Your comment makes no sense.  What does being GPL have to do with
choosing ext2fs vs. XFS?  We ported XFS to FreeBSD because we felt like it,
and it was fun.  ext3fs is irrelevant.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc@crodrigues.org



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