> - If we could clean-room implement a BSD-licensed > EXT3/EXT4/BTRFS/XFS/JFS/whatever, following style(8), would there be > interest in supporting that in OpenBSD?
And which "we" are you referring to here? Did you mean yourself, or are you hoping that "somebody" will do it? > There's merit in the third option, OpenBSD already supports EXT2 (which > is also 90's vintage like ffs) as there are some platforms (e.g. > loongson) that require it. >... > EXT4 is also very widespread and stable, and seems to offer decent > performance. So send a diff that upgrades the code to ext3 and 4. > ZFS and BTRFS are much newer, and more complicated with software RAID > functionality built in. I think these would be harder to implement from > scratch. Persuade the owners to release under an ISC license. Then send a diff.
