Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:19:01 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606090919.AA120601941@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199606050648.BAA00451@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jun 5, 96 01:48:15 am
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In his e-mail John S. Dyson wrote: > > It is missing an LFSCK, and contrary to what alot of people might say, IMO it > is needed. That is likely where most of the work would be. > > My guess is that just getting LFS running sort-of reliably would be 2wks+- full > time of work, if you understand things to begin with. It is not a night or > two of work, but probably not a couple of months full time either. There are > some patches from Margot (I am not sure if we have integrated them), and also > some VM system work (to eliminate alot of usually unnecessary copies). > If someone will take the project on, and get the code running as-is, I will > do the work to clean up the VM stuff (and help with working the kernel > VM/vfs_bio interface issues.) > > Jeffery Hsu is working on the VFS stuff right now, so I would suggest waiting > until his stuff settles out (or at least track it), but alot of prelim work > could start immediately. > > So, I guess what I am saying is that if someone will take the lead, I'll > help!!! They say that he who volunteers is a fool. I guess I am the Fool, then :) I hope the sources on 2.1 CD are good enough for preliminary reading. Do you perhaps know where are the patches and additional documentation (i.e. papers, etc ?) /Marino > > John > >
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