At 17:21 12-7-2001 +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
Hi everyone,
I hope this does not cause any major trouble. I am wondering if there is
any effort to get XFS working on FreeBSD complete with EAs and ACLs. I do
not know what the state of the filesystem support of FreeBSD is, but the
last I've read looks like it's still UFS with soft updates. I also
personally wonder why SGI decided to port XFS to Linux and not to the
BSDs. I have never used any BSD (I use Linux actually) but this just makes
me curious. I've heard the BSDs are also very good, but maybe someone can
enlighten me off-list about this.
The biggest concern of most BSD people is that XFS would need to be
licensed under the BSD license, Unfortunately the people at SGI had a hard
enough time to convince them to use the GPL license as it is. I don't think
they will switch licenses because it takes huge efforts to do so.
it would be possible to use the GPL code in BSDs but you would probably
need a fs layer interface to seperate the two. This makes it possible to
use XFS as a GPL piece of code without needing to change the license. But I
might be wrong though, I am not really at home in the BSD side of the world.
However due to the nature of XFS and it's interactivity with the VM this
would be a huge effort to port to BSD. It would take a lot of time to make
it work.
I might forget something, but you can look in the mailing list archives for
a previous BSD discussion.
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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