Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:22:58 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <3C1AEC42.C74E5503@mindspring.com> References: <3C19CAD3.A5685BEF@yahoo.com> <20011215110924.K85108@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 9:48:03 +0000, Hiten Pandya wrote: > >> (Greg)The loader might have to be GPL'd. > > > > I dont think so, we can use that LILO loader which is also GPL'ed > > under the src/sys/boot tree. I will make a seperate article > > when the file system is ready saying what to do if people wanted > > to use JFS in their environments. > > I don't think LILO understands JFS. It doesn't have to. The block locations are recorded in LILO itself, so it doesn't matter what FS you use, as long as it does not do data transformation (e.g. not cryptographic, and not compressing). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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