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Re: File System?
- To: Jay Lepreau <lepreau at cs dot utah dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] File System?
- From: Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
- Date: 31 Jan 2000 09:14:21 +0100
- Cc: "Maurizio Martignano" <mm at sitek dot it>, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200001310231.TAA10928@mancos.cs.utah.edu>
>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Lepreau <lepreau@cs.utah.edu> writes:
Jay> File systems in the OSKit's current bag of components include all
Jay> the Linux-supported filesystems (ext2, msdos, vfat, and iso9660
Jay> have been tested), the standard BSD "ffs" filesystem, and a
Jay> simple memory filesys. Since the OSKit wraps essentially
Jay> unchanged code from the original OS's (except for the memory fs),
Jay> its file systems are more reliable and speedy than if we'd been
Jay> foolish enough to reimplement them.
But they are probably also GPLd then. This may be a problem for some
people since eCos is linked to the application code and thus require
the application code to be GPLd as well.
Jesper