Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:23:22 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermezzo FS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <fmkluq$62g$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <6933400d0801152152o2b692cabl2dc816ac57ae9396@mail.gmail.com> References: <6933400d0801152152o2b692cabl2dc816ac57ae9396@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCB632B5EADE2D89711AB450D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Onkar wrote: > Hi all, > This is my first post on FreeBSD mailing list ; so sorry if I = am > not adhering to any rules. >=20 > My Question was : > (1) Is Intermezzo File system ported onto Fre= eBSD. > [Y/N] Almost certainly not. > (2) If (1) is N, Why it is not ported for so = long > ? Is there any specific reason (licensing etc (but Intermezzo FS is und= er > GPL) )? [Y/N] Nobody payed anybody to do it, and nobody needed it badly enough to do it themselves. > (4) If (2) is N , Can I start porting it to > FreeBSD now ? [Y/N] Yes! As long as you keep everything needed for the module (more specifically, everything under non-BSD friendly license) in a separate module, there wouldn't be licensing problems. I've did some reading about Intermezzo and one of the things about it is that it's described as "working on top of a journaled file system". By its specification it seems it doesn't actually need a journal but a "file system operations stream". There's no general way of generating these records (AFAIK there is in DragonflyBSD) but maybe it would be enough to hook up like a nullfs mount. > (5) if (4) is Y, then how to register the pro= ject > (i.e., "Intermezzo on FreeBSD") ? That sounds like a good name. If you are serious about it, maybe you could ask for a Perforce account (if you can deal with the way it works :) ), a wiki account, etc. --------------enigCB632B5EADE2D89711AB450D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHjdsaldnAQVacBcgRAuM+AKCmxeJb+VgMXn77bmt7jAVJDeq90QCffVwt RmeVcKnitcLiikm6s694KTc= =S6YS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCB632B5EADE2D89711AB450D--
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