From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 17:22:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4F816A417; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from moe.cs.uoguelph.ca (moe.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.94.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4839E13C46B; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.102]) by moe.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0HHMGu9012974; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:22:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (rmacklem@localhost) by muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id m0HHPPf00119; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:25:25 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca: rmacklem owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:25:25 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem X-X-Sender: rmacklem@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <478F8BF2.4070700@samsco.org> Message-ID: References: <18CC5A4A2AC36D7FF57615EE@ganymede.hub.org> <478AF6BC.8050604@highperformance.net> <20080114142124.Y55696@fledge.watson.org> <876FB8E38251C27B14CCCA29@atlantis.pc.cs.cmu.edu> <20080116203521.K15541@fledge.watson.org> <478F8BF2.4070700@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.104.94.198 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-afs@freebsd.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org, port-freebsd@openafs.org Subject: Re: VFS KPI was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS ... or equivalent ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:22:21 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Scott Long wrote: > > Both Solaris and OSX seem to have found the path out of the VFS locking > woods, and it would indeed be really nice if FreeBSD could follow suit. Yes, I didn't mention Solaris (because I've never looked at it), but being able to easily port file system code from OpenSolaris sounds like it might be a big win. ZFS is an obvious example, but there is also stuff like pNFS in the pipe that would be nice. (I'm going to try and get my nfsv4 code into FreeBSD, but it will only be nfsv4.0 and I have no urge to do 4.1/pNFS.) And others mentioned that there is quite a bit of momentum w.r.t. OpenAFS in Solaris. rick