> Are there any plans (even the slightest consideration) of porting XFS to
> other operating systems? I had in mind ports to free systems like the BSDs,
> and maybe to other Unices if there is any interest. I know IBM's OpenAFS
> has been ported to Digital Unix, Solaris, Linux, AIX (obviously) and even NT
> but this is mostly because of commercial demand. Are there any plans to
> extend XFS's capabilities to, say, Free-, Open-, and NetBSD? As far as I
> know, those OSes do not have journaling file systems and could very well
> benefit from XFS.
>
> thank you
>
No internal plans - SGI has linux based products, hence our specific interest
in Linux. But since it is GPL, there is nothing stopping you from doing things
like this - unless you put the code places the GPL does not let you....
Steve
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