Re: Background fsck

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:57:05PM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > Can't do it with ReiserFS (License? Documentation?) since they want to
> > be paid to port it. 
> 
> I think the question was about reimplementing it (fresh code), like 
> NetBSD's BSD-licensed implementation of ext2fs.
> 
> If you write your own filesystem code that can read and write to 
> ext3/reiserfs/etc, I doubt there are legal hurdles.

Well, ext3 should be fine. But I heard rumors about reiserfs
being affected by a US patent.

Joerg

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> Rahul
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