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Re: Clarification before I get flamed too much

To: Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Clarification before I get flamed too much
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:17 -0500
Cc: SGI XFS Dev List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Message from Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:59:56 EDT." <20011018115956.C26033@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Major factors for leaving are that a project I'm leading is using FreeBSD.
> Until XFS becomes part of a distro I can't afford the time to maintain two
> different OS boxes, especially when I have to build up kernels from CVS for
> the Linux one.
> 
> There. No FUD involved. Plain, pragmatic, business decision. In the previous
> questions I was asking, the "manager" I wanted to know how to convince was me
> .
> 
> I think XFS is the salvation for the Linux FS needs, but I have to bow out
> of development stuff right now.
> 
> -- 
> Alan Eldridge
> from std_disclaimer import *

I knew there was a reason I kept out of threads for a while....

Alan, best of luck with FreeBSD, you might want to touch base with
Russell Cattelan, I have heard mention he had been making progress
on an XFS port to FreeBSD (then there was the NT port I heard about)
what was it Linus said about world dominiation?

OK, enough rumors for today ;-)

Steve




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