XFS (read-only) support committed to CURRENT

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at crodrigues.org
Fri Dec 16 07:12:53 PST 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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?

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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Craig Rodrigues        
rodrigc at crodrigues.org


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