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Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
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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
> 
>