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List:       linux-fsdevel
Subject:    Re: HFS, QNXFS
From:       Alexander Viro <viro () math ! psu ! edu>
Date:       1999-10-11 21:13:57
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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jedi/Sector One wrote:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > IMHO, even if an fs was bug-free in 2.2.x, lack of testing under the new
> > 2.3.x VFS implies an experimental and possibly non-working nature.
> 
>   The QNXFS is not bug-free in 2.2.x . It is useable to share some files
	I'll say...
> between Linux and QNX, and when QNX is screwed up, this is really a good
> help : things can be fixed under Linux a lot easier than with a QNX
> rescue system.
>   I am a coder and maintainer of the QNX FS. The QSSL team gave me a
> valid QNX license in order to do some work like that project. But what
> they didn't tell me is that this license was limited and a few days
> after the QNX FS was in the Kernel, it expired. I tried to got in touch
> with QSSL without any success, maybe they don't want to help us in
> working on their FS for Linux.

	OK, to bloody hell with QSSL. Do you have a documentation? If the
license had expired, how can you use your code at all (with what)? Do you
have valid fs images?

>   I will try to fix it for 2.3.x (in fact, I am waiting for the ReiserFS
> port for that series because my system heavily depends on ReiserFS)
	???

> asap. Some features are still missing to fully support the FS (like the
> extents list) . I'd be glad to implement them as soon as I will have a
> copy of QNX to work with.
	== when your contacts with QSSL will give some results, that is?
I suspect that those guys are less than excited by the interesting trick
played by Amiga idi^H^H^Hmanagement.
	Does their license allow remote logins? Is it per-user or per-CPU
or what? If it does you might consider comp.os.linux.announce - somebody
might help you.

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