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Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
To: fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:51:31 +0200 (MESZ)
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In his e-mail James Raynard wrote:
> 
> Actually I was thinking about jumping in, but on portals, as I've just
> read a paper on it and thought it seemed quite interesting (I found it
> somewhere under http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/, BTW).
> 
> On the other hand, if there's going to be a "team assault" on
> LFS... 8-)

Portals are great.  Especially since I have a ClearCase clone that works
with symlinks, and which would benefit immensely from a working portal
interface.  Can you say MVFS?  I thought you could :)  There is no end of
things one can achieve with a working portalfs.

This leads to another point.  It seems to me that there will be some
co-op work on (new) filesystems under FreeBSD.  How about
freebsd-fs mailing list?

/Marino
> 
> -- 
> James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
> james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org
> 
>