XFS Please: Addition to Fedora/RedHat

ne... akabi at speakeasy.net
Fri Oct 10 17:45:24 UTC 2003


On Oct 10, 2003 at 11:35, Chris Spencer in a soothing rage wrote:

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>On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 10:18, Aly Dharshi wrote:
>> Hi RedHat/Fedora Maintainers,
>> 
>> 	I would be really really really grateful if you guys could switch on
>> support for the SGI-XFS file system in your redhat/fedora kernels by
>> default like you have an option for reiserfs and jfs in RedHat 9 and
>> other versions for example. The benefits would be great !
>> 
>> 	If you couldn't do this would you be able to tell me/us why you guys
>> wouldn't be able to do so. That would be great. Thanxs !
>This may not be included because of issues with the SGI/XFS licensing.
What licensing issue are you refering to?
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/license.html explicitly states
that XFS is under GPL.

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