From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 19:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03486 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-0028.jumpnet.com [207.8.61.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03475 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id VAA29100; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:26:01 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem hacking References: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF9C33287@STLABCEXG011> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 30 Jan 1998 21:25:59 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Alton, Matthew"'s message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:52:27 -0600" Message-ID: <85d8h9729k.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" "Alton, Matthew" 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)