From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 14: 2:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E27537B9BE; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29502; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:02:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:02:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: journaling fs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > >> To change the topic slightly, are there any plans to resurrect LFS? > >Not that I know of. You're right in that it would be difficult, there have been so many changes to UFS and the kernel space since BSD-LFS was originally written. What has caught my eye lately though is the LinLogFS[0] project some guys are working on for linux. It's a neat idea because they claim to have written a fairly filesystem independent core which should be able to easily copy with different filesystems without a lot of porting. I'd assume it's probably GPLed but I could see it as a possible kernel option, obviously it has to reside under src/sys/gnu but when those guys get done it might be worthwhile to look into how it works with UFS. There's of course also the option of implementing our own kernel level FS independent journaling filesystem, but I don't think there's enough demand right now. Not when UFS still is plenty for most uses. [0] - http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/czezatke/lfs.html Brandon D. Valentine -- "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message