* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011211 00:48] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> [ ... Hiten wants someone to GPLify FreeBSD ... ]
>
> > I'm glad you took the time to read the marketting literature.
> >
> > The problem is that porting it is going to be a bit more complicated
> > than just dumping it into src/gnu.
> >
> > Feel free to take a shot at porting it though, let us know
> > when you're done.
>
> FS porting to FreeBSD is actually pretty trivial(*), though some
> transactioning changes to the FreeBSD VFS layer consumers (the
> system calls and NFS server code) would be necessary to make
> the journal roll-back function correctly, following a failure.
>
> (*) Trivial: meaning grunt work is required; not necessarily an
> indicator of the amount of work, only the intellectual effort
> required for the job
Terry, porting an FS is trivial, doing it right less so, but
actually taking the time to do it, now that's another matter,
considering I don't have any experience with JFS, porting it
"just to find out" doesn't make it worth my while. Hence
my encouragement of our enthusiastic friend.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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