On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 daniele@ncssm.edu wrote:

> Yeah, I know we can't use the code, but do we really want a different
> filesystem?  Some very smart people put a lot of time into it; not that the
> same couldn't be done again, but what's the point?  Also, it would seem good
> to me if an eventual linux port could share the FS on the memory cards and
> the like.
>
	Certainly it would make sense to have a NetBSD implementation
	for the midori filesystem, whether or not it ends up being
	the recommended NetBSD flash filesystem, in the same way we have
	ext2 and ntfs filesystems.

	(I've not looked at the code to really comment on the filesystem
	:)

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:18:39AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
>  > >midori Linux, just released by transmeta, includes such.  As a
>  > >non-programmer non NetBSD/Linux expert, I have to ask:  how hard would
> it be
>  > >to support that, and is there any reason to go create another one?
>  >
>  > GPL.
>
> Also, the Linux file system stuff is TOTALLY different.  Better to
> understand how the file system stuff works, and re-implement the ideas.
>
>


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