On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:48:58 -0800, Terry Lambert 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
Considering that the current UFS implementation didn't need to be ported, and people are still working on the details, I think that this is a highly misleading statement. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
