Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 21:31:36 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <200011040532.eA45WEo65619@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Nov 2000 11:57:58 EST." <ybulmv1802x.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>
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In message <ybulmv1802x.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>, Randell Jes up writes: > >> Yes, patches would be nice. :) > > > >Patches cannot be formed until a general consensus exists on how the > >patches should do things if and when an enterprising soul made them. > >Otherwise, they stand a good chance at being rejected based on some, > >possibly relevant, objection to how they work. > > > >Also, such patches are likely best formed by the same people that are > >currently suggesting doing a variety of other things for disklabel and > >friends. > > I'm willing to help on this, though my time may be limited. I have > _extensive_ FS experience from my Amiga days, and also was the primary > disk-driver person and SCSI expert, and also did "archive" filesystems for > Scala. I've never hacked the internals of ufs, however, but I do know the > issues. Would this become a new filesystem, e.g. extfs v.s. ext2fs -- ufs v.s. ufs2? If not, would there be some kind of conversion procedure or would existing filesystem have to be backed up, reinitialised and restored? Or instead, would the filesystem convert to the new format on the fly? In other words how would this affect our "customers"? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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