Subject: Re: SGI will freely license its XFS
To: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 05/20/1999 13:07:54
On May 20, Oleg Polyanski wrote
> hello,
>
> good news are here. the story
>
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,36807,00.html
>
> tells that SGI will release the source code of their XFS. it
> lacks some features but is able to handle with files of very big size,
> has b-tree layout on the media and, the most important, it is journaling
> file system. if the license is acceptable I guess it will quite easy
> to port XFS into NetBSD.
How is it different from our LFS ?
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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