From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 17:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79D337B41B for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from wing6.herald.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.0.230] ident=exim) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16F3LK-0006Nh-04; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:10:22 +0000 Received: from httpd by wing6.herald.ox.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.32 #1) id 16F3LK-00086x-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:10:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.103 (Entity 4.115) From: George Reid Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:10:22 +0000 (GMT) To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: hitmaster2k@yahoo.com Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > - Help me do better job than (no offence) Kirk > McKusick in optimising the FFS/UFS file system which has a > (undoubtably) large and mature codebase of over around > 20 years. Kirk has a doctorate and several other degrees. He has written several books and articles on filesystem design and implemenation. You are, by your own admission, an "intermediate C programmer" with no knowledge of kernel internals. So far, we've all seen lots of talk on your part and no code. Write some code, then talk. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message