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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 1998 02:57:23 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem hacking
Message-ID:  <19980131025723.34628@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9C33287@STLABCEXG011>; from Alton, Matthew on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:52:27PM -0600
References:  <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9C33287@STLABCEXG011>

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According to Alton, Matthew:
> I have decided to code up an IBM-style journaling filesystem
> (jfs) with maximum portability for free unices.  While I'm at it
> I had might as well have the clean-bits map to a PP/extent
> disk arrangement which will act as a useful abstraction for a
> Logical Volume Manager / Veritas -esque disk management
> system which I also find interesting enough to code up.  

YES! With LFS now dead and the VPS (virtual partitions à la LVM) not going
anywhere, having a extendable & journalled file-system would be very nice.

I'm willing to help...
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #54: Mon Jan 26 20:29:17 CET 1998



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