Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Bill Pechter: > Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs > would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component that would never see > "free" status. Note that the released version is the OS/2 one (maybe based on HPFS?) not the one in AIX. But I agree this is goo

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -fs] On Friday, 4 February 2000 at 15:28:34 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Bill Pechter wrote: >> >> Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file >> systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. >> >> Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? >

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Wes Peters
Bill Pechter wrote: > > Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file > systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. > > Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? You apparently haven't noticed the war of words going on on http://daily.daemonnews.o

Re: JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:57 PM -0500 2/4/00, Bill Pechter wrote: >Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling >file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. > >Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? People outside the expo heard about it too, and there has been an ac

JFS and IBM

2000-02-04 Thread Bill Pechter
Folks, while some of us were at Linux expo talking about journaling file systems and *BSD, IBM released jfs to the GPL. Is there anyone working on this as a gpl'd add-in to *BSD? Is this as much of a surprise to all of you as to me... I thought jfs would remain a tightly held OSF/1 component th