Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 18:37:37 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: John.Shue@symmetron.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI releases XFS to Open Source Community Message-ID: <199906062337.SAA38873@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from John.Shue@symmetron.com (John A. Shue) of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:19:09 EDT." <00ce01beb059$d5bec5e0$42baefce@mail.symmetron.com>
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John A. Shue writes: > A friend of mine (he's a Linux guy) pointed me to a recent article in InfoWorld about SGI > making an announcement at the Linux Expo. SGI is going to release the code to XFS, SGI's > journaling, 64-bit filesystem. > > SGI's press release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/may/xfs.html > > I just did a mail archive search on all the freebsd lists where I thought discussion of > this event would be. I was surprised to find nothing relevant. (Although, I did find a > few emails from Nov. '96 and also a few from Apr. '97 saying they wish FreeBSD had XFS). freebsd-chat had at least 8 messages on the topic starting 5/20/99. > Is FreeBSD going to wait for Linux to port XFS and run XFS under our Linux emulator? I doubt it as XFS really needs to be in kernel space, not user space. > Or is FreeBSD going to create a development group to port the XFS to FreeBSD? Something like that. When SGI releases the code the interested people will band together and do something. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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