Will XFS be adopted

[Frank Mayhar]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 12:43 -0500, Dan wrote:
> With XFS being adopted by Linux now for a number of years, I wonder why
> it hasn't been by FreeBSD. It's a great FS that can be resized on the
> fly which makes it a perfect journaling FS with volume managers. Anybody
> know?

Considering that XFS is under the GPL (totally incompatible with the BSD
license) and that ZFS _is_ being adopted by FreeBSD, at least
experimentally, there's no good reason to adopt XFS and at least one
good reason not to do so.
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