Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:54:50 +0100 (CET) From: Edwin Mons <edwinm@email.spcgroup.nl> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br Subject: Re: JFS Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10001312249110.25665-100000@email.spcgroup.nl> In-Reply-To: <200001312143.OAA20171@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > I do know. The main reason why LFS was never updated isn't that it > > was made obsolete by softupdates, as claimed above, but that it was > > made obsolete by JFS. Why work on LFS if it is not up to a JFS? > > Unfortunately, the people who have to suffer enourmous waits after > > crashes usually have way more to do, even if they have the skills to > > fix LFS. > > To shove this discussion a bit sideways, SGI announced a while back > that they were going to release the source code to their Journaled > File System. Does anyone here know that status of that? Wouldn't > that be the perfect starting place for a FreeBSD JFS? Do we know > what their license will look like? It's not released yet, but there are some code-fragments released to public already. As far as I know, it will be released under the GPL. It's named XFS, and you can find information here: http://http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs Regards, Intosi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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