Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:45:47 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Atrens <andrew_atrens@yahoo.ca> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG, atrens@nortelnetworks.com Subject: Re: is ext2fs a good template for porting a linux filesystem? Message-ID: <20020307174547.73428.qmail@web11303.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020307180104.A8734@caldera.de>
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--- Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:43:19AM -0500, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > Clearcase provides a thin (compilable) shim which fits between the > > linux kernel and their mvfs module. > > Where is this source part available? You can download the 4.2 (or 5.0 aka 2002) tarballs from www.rational.com. The shim stuff (my name, not theirs) is bundled in the v4.2/rhat_x86/etc/conf or v5.0/rhat_x86/etc/conf directory tree(s). I'm not sure, but I think anybody can download it. > > > It also _might_ make it possible to develop a FreeBSD shim, > although I > > really don't know enough yet to know for sure :) > > I think that would be very difficult as the Linux VFS is > fundamentally > different from FreeBSD and other 4.4BSD derivates. Depending on how > much of the generic library code for filesystems it uses on Linux it > might be possible, but I bet it would be even more unstable than the > already rather bad Linux version.. Unfortunately I barely have any experience using the Linux version - I mostly use Suns for mvfs. From what I've heard though 4.2 is a lot more stable than 4.1. 5.0 I not sure about - it isn't backward compatible with 4.x vob databases and I don't know who has tried it. Thanks for the info ! Cheers, Andrew -- | Opinions are mine, not those of any employer. ______________________________________________________________________ Find, Connect, Date! http://personals.yahoo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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