Re: [was: ext2 question] XFS opensourced!

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 27 May 1999 18:25:43 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 24 May 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:

> One of the nice things about open-source code and such is that you
> don't have to go reinventing the wheel in general, and I guess there is some
> concern that if XFS has everything ext3 was planning to have, why develop
> both? Of course, it depends on the licenses, and if/when xfs actually shows
> up and such.

You missed one detail: how much portable to Linux it will be.
Besides, what one chooses to develop is nobody else concern. The *only*
person who may decide in this case is SCT. Really.

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