Date: 30 Jan 1998 21:25:59 -0600 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem hacking Message-ID: <85d8h9729k.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: "Alton, Matthew"'s message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:52:27 -0600" References: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9C33287@STLABCEXG011>
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"Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com> writes: > 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. Cool! I've always wondered why no one had tackled this yet.... > This is not an attempt to morph FreeBSD into AIX by any > means. It is just an interesting project which I think may be > of use to hackers. Of course it's not. The JFS and LVM are a couple of cool things that IBM introduced to the UNIX world. Actually, I suspect they were someone's research projects before that.... -Dave (who works devloping AIX during the day)
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