future of xfs, oss.sgi.com after sgi purchased?

Linda A. Walsh xfs at tlinx.org
Wed Apr 15 16:23:16 CDT 2009


Not one to beat about the bush, but curious from a practical sense,

If sgi is being bought by another company, is there any idea about the plans
for the xfs file system or the source code on 'oss.sgi.com'?

I'm _guessing_ that there is some interest in users and developers to keep xfs 
alive after the 'sgi' moniker is purchased, but that begs the question about the 
new company wanting to support the old 'sgi.com' websites including
oss.sgi.com.

Is there a danger of oss.sgi.com suddenly being yanked offline with little to no 
warning, such that community members should start keeping up-to-date, or is it 
already mirrored?  I'm assuming that the current source code repository only 
exists on oss.sgi.com?  Should it be mirrored on some other external open-source 
site?  sourceforge? google? mozilla?

Is completely worthless to discuss new, desired features in some of the utils? 
Will it be possible to support the xfs codebase if its development no longer 
becomes necessary to sgi (or its parent company)?

*sigh*,
-linda





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