From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n3G8YtAu064742 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:35:05 -0500 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A3A3A21AFC2 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [64.81.245.74]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id AfFp7GZAYdrOHXZM for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.3.11] (Athena [192.168.3.11]) by ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.1/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n3G8YHen021912 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:34:17 -0700 Message-ID: <49E6ED88.5020008@tlinx.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:34:16 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: future of xfs, oss.sgi.com after sgi purchased? References: <49E65044.8080802@tlinx.org> <49E6B6F7.6030500@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <49E6B6F7.6030500@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs-oss Eric Sandeen wrote: > Linda A. Walsh wrote: > > If sgi is being bought by another company, is there any idea about the plans > > for the xfs file system or the source code on 'oss.sgi.com'? > > While I doubt that oss.sgi.com would abruptly vanish, there are > nonetheless already git repos on kernel.org, which are sometimes even > ahead of what's on oss.sgi.com ... xfs.org has a lot of content as well. > Mailing list archives exist at various other sites. --- Would hope not -- but have seen companies pull real bonehead maneuvers. I can understand that for kernel work, but what about the xfs utils? (dump/restore et al.) They have had a pretty static feature set from what little I've noticed, but I may just not be getting updates. I don't know if it would be of any benefit, but apparently the sgi xfsdump used to be multi-threaded? (Just as a random example). Thanks for allaying some concerns. Felix Blyakher wrote: >> I'm _guessing_ that there is some interest in users and developers to >> keep xfs alive after the 'sgi' moniker is purchased, but that begs the >> question about the new company wanting to support the old 'sgi.com' >> websites including oss.sgi.com. >> >> Is there a danger of oss.sgi.com suddenly being yanked offline with >> little to no warning, > > I doubt it'll happen in any circumstances. --- There have been precedents at sgi. Other systems from sgi pulled on a policy change: Internal news, external employee web-pages (reality being yanked). All based on some policy or organizational change that gave very little advance warning. > I hope that wouldn't happen. Though, while it'll be loss for xfs > in this unlikely scenario, I think, there is enough critical mass > outside of sgi to continue support and move forward xfs. --- I'd like to think so, but for whatever reason(s), it's seems to be one of the larger (in terms of lines of code) filesystems -- making more difficult to support -- not that those lines aren't there for good use/good features. Just that XFS was well developed when it was being ported too linux. Was no easy task. I'd love to see XFS ported to the Windows environment -- and then give MS some competition for their NT file system. Since Fat32 has more significantly important limitations, Can't always use a FAT32 as a common files system between OS's. And MS isn't exactly open about NTFS. > Felix > xfs maintainer, still at sgi ---- Congrats...on making this far... -l _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs