Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:18 13-6-2001 -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> 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 :)
>
> Jeff

True, they will sell you an a Veritas Journaling FS if you pay deerly for it.
You must pay seperately for their volume manager and it is also tied to the 
size of your storage. BUt i'm not sure about that.

The Filesystem is called VxFS, there is now also a freevxfs.o for the linux 
kernel but this is read only and does not support all on-disk formats of 
the fs. It seems like the on-disk format is different between variants of 
their FS.


> "Nathan J. Mehl" wrote:
>
> > [a late response, my apologies]
> >
> > In the immortal words of Russell Cattelan (cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx):
> > >
> > > It wasn't an issue of  gain or not gain for SGI but a sense of what could
> > > be lost:
> > > XFS on solaris seems to be the biggest fear.
> >
> > Is it?
> >
> > Sun is already shipping a number of GPLed utlities with Solaris 8.
> > (Most notably and blessedly, /bin/bash.)  There's even source code
> > included, buried deeply back on installation CD #8934...  I rather
> > expect that if Sun thought they could gain some sort of competetive
> > advantage from shipping Solaris 9 with XFS, they'd simply go ahead and
> > do so with the existing GPL code.
> >
> > However, I can't see it happening.  Sun has a strong financial
> > disincentive against such a move: they currently make money off of
> > selling "server" editions of Solaris (which bundle Solstice Disksuite)
> > and rebadged copies of VXFS/VXVM for Solaris.  Why ship for free what
> > they currently make in the neighborhood of $5k/seat for? :)
> >
> > -n
> >
> > 
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Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.