Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 12:50:31 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: journaling UFS and LFS Message-ID: <381B2FE7.AF8FA527@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910301210360.43638-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
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(Trimmed a bit the CC list) Don wrote: > ... > > Softupdates is definitely a viable solution however it does not address > several issues and the license is not a BSD license so it makes me > uncomfortable. > The links to CFFS that I posted on -arch show some performance improvements in the Exokernel and in OpenBSD-CFFS against the stock FreeBSD-FFS; it's an interesting alternative. > LFS is being considered as a starting point for this project. The goal is > to build an extensible file system with features such as the ability to > grow and shrink partitions, acl's journaling etc. > Margo Selzer's papers are an important reference: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/papers/ I recall the sources also carry a large TODO list. > XFS is also being considered as a feature reference. > I understand XFS is quite big, it not used by SGI for their distribution media (I understand they use a modified UFS) and it will take quite some time to port to linux, so I think "feature reference" is the correct approach to it. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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