[geeks] Eeeek

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:38, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:32:04PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On April 10, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > Err, I don't know if it is byte level compatible, but basically it is
> > > the same since it was derived from SGI releasing a neutared version of
> > > the irix XFS code.
> >
> >   How did they neuter it?
>
> I don't know.  That's just what I remebered hearing.  Maybe neutered wasn't
> the right work.  Maybe more like sterilized it.

I seem to remember hearing that as well. I also seem to remember one of the
things yanked out of the released code was the guaranteed i/o rate stuff;
which appears to be present now.

Perhaps it was just a case that some stuff got left out until they had the
base stuff working.