On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 at 1:57am, John Haverty wrote
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >The XFS code is freely available - port it to FreeBSD if you think it's
> >worth the effort. I doubt my employer (SGI) is interested in wasting it's
> >time for something like that
> >(note that this is not an official statement,
> >just an educated guess)
>
> FreeBSD, waste of time? Hardly. FreeBSD is, for example, the basis for
> JunOS, a military grade piece of iron that runs the best routers on earth,
> so I hardly think of FreeBSD as a waste. Plus, FreeBSD is a meritocracy,
> well documented, coherent. One who works for a real unix vendor, such as
> SGI->Irix, should have an appreciation of FreeBSD. It's fine wine in the
> sour world of Linux. ;p
I think you misunderstand the original sentiment. SGI would probably
consider it a waste of their time (= money) to port XFS to an OS in which
they have no financial interest. They have products based on Linux, and
thus XFS on Linux can make them money. XFS on FreeBSD won't, thus no
port. They *are* a profit seeking company, after all.
Regarding your initial question, it's easy enough to rpmbuild the official
1.2 SRPMs on a 7.x box. That's what I'm doing here.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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