Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x

Jean-Sébastien Pédron jspedron at club-internet.fr
Wed Oct 20 11:56:22 PDT 2004


Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> 
>>If ReiserFS should be integrated to FreeBSD, a rewrite would be a
>>good thing
> 
> If I understand correctly, it would not be as much a 'good thing' as
> 'mandatory'.  This is because, if FreeBSD incorporates any GPLed
> software in the kernel, then the whole kernel immediately falls
> under the GPL.  And this is not something the Project wants to do.
> 
> Or am I misunderstaning something?

It can go in src/sys/gnu, like ext2.

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