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Re: Mounting XFS

To: "James" <brojohnson@home.com>, "Ken Seefried" <ken@seefried.com>, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting XFS
From: "Ken Cross" <kcross@ntown.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:37:12 -0400
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Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com

Yes, that's true, but if you include ext2 support, the build process warns
you that it is "contaminated" (their word, not mine) with GPL code for ext2
support.

Still, if they can do it for ext2, they could do it for XFS if they wanted
to.

Ken

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:43:25PM -0400, Ken Cross wrote:
> > Don't count on XFS in FreeBSD anytime soon -- I suspect that there are
> > licensing issues that probably eclipse the technical ones.
> 
> There shouldn't be. FreeBSD already has GPLed file systems even in tree, 
> like their ext2 port.
> 
> -Andi

References:
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: Daniel Moore <dxm@snort.melbourne.sgi.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "James" <brojohnson@home.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "Ken Cross" <kcross@ntown.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "James" <brojohnson@home.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "Ken Seefried" <ken@seefried.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "James" <brojohnson@home.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: "Ken Cross" <kcross@ntown.com>
- Re: Mounting XFS
  - From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

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