XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 18 02:02:43 PST 2005


Craig Rodrigues wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
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>>Hm. Does this mean that FreeBSD's XFS implementation is GPL'd like
>>ext2fs is? If so, allow me a question why XFS was chosen in preference
>>to ext3fs?
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>Your comment makes no sense.  What does being GPL have to do with
>choosing ext2fs vs. XFS?  We ported XFS to FreeBSD because we felt like it,
>and it was fun.  ext3fs is irrelevant.
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I would like to see writable XFS, this gives us another FS option,
how diffcult would it be? :-)





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