From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Feb 29 10:42: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C05B37BC6C for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 42566 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Feb 2000 18:41:52 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:41:52 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Alex Povolotsky , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advanced file systems for BSD Message-ID: <20000229194152.D42254@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de References: <20000229054639.E18770@rohrbach.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:36:49PM +0100 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org the abbrviation lfs was a general reference to log structured filesystems, which reiserfs as of the last versions also is when it comes to journaling. sorry for mixing up the terminology. /k Marius Bendiksen(mbendiks@eunet.no)@Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:36:49PM +0100: > > how about a lfs kinda thing like a port of reiserfs? > > got it running on one linux box here and it rocks (journaling, > > resizing,...) > > Excuse me, but what does LFS have to do with Reiser FS ? > LFS is the Berkeley Log Structured File System, which utilizes an > append-only log to write optimally, whereas Reiser FS is a file system > researched and developed by Hans Reiser to store small files in a byte > aligned, rather than block aligned, balanced tree. > > Also, Reiser FS is (according to my local RedHat evangelist) not truly > stable enough for production use. > > Marius > -- > Coders do it with a routine. http://www.webmonster.de http://www.apache.de http://www.splatterworld.de (NIC-HDL KR433/KR11-RIPE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message