Re: [OT] XFS and FreeBSD?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.