Re: XFS to go Open Source

Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Fri, 21 May 1999 22:32:41 +0200

André Dahlqvist wrote:
>
> I read today that SGI will release XFS as Open Source. Will this fs
> replace ext2 in the future? I've heard that Stephen Tweedie is working on
> a journaling filesystem as welll, which one, if either, will be chosen for
> Linux?
>
> // André
>

If XFS license allowed it, it would make sense to include it into
kernel. It would also make sense to include Stephen's. Then you could
choose the one you prefer.

Robert

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