> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Dan Koren wrote:
>
> > As our press announcement said, XFS will be released in open source.
> > That does not contradict/preclude its being structured as a loadable
> > module. XFS is a pretty large file system (100k+ lines of code) and
> > it wouldn't be reasonable for something that large to be statically
> > linked with the kernel, as there are probably lots of applications
> > and configurations that don't need its capabilities.
> >
> > I hope this clarifies things.
>
> Actually it does quite the opposite - not on the political side, but on
> the technical one. Statically linked != always compiled in. And the point
> of making such beast a module is moot - XFS is not something likely to be
> temporarily mounted. It's not a likely filesystem for ZIP or floppy...
Why be concerned? It's going to be open sourced, and presumably GPL'd.
Do what you will with it once it's hit that point. Statically link it,
whatever...
--- tani hosokawa river styx internet
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