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Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp

To: "Jeffrey B. Layton" <jeffrey.b.layton@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:31:11 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3B272FE8.97A8F575@lmco.com>; from jeffrey.b.layton@lmco.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:18:32AM -0400
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106111207380.5609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <3B24E5A1.7404BFBA@thebarn.com> <3B24E732.D3A3C8A6@sgi.com> <3B24EE05.F7E46B6C@thebarn.com> <20010613024149.Z8330@blank.org> <3B272FE8.97A8F575@lmco.com>
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In the immortal words of Jeffrey B. Layton (jeffrey.b.layton@xxxxxxxx):
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Solaris use a Veritas
> filesystem as the default filesystem (I know HP does).
> If that is the case, then getting rid of royalities to Veritas
> but still charging the same per license would increase
> their profits. Sure sounds like motivation to me :)

Nope.  By default, Sun uses plain-ol-UFS.  (As of 2.8, they added
metadata logging.)  VXFS is an extra, and rather pricey, option.

-n

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