Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:58:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET> Cc: Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <3BA52EA7.13045ECE@mindspring.com> References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <3BA5273F.A2131982@mindspring.com> <20010916223009.A53663@NewGold.NET>
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Joseph Mallett wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:27:11PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dennis Berger wrote: > > > > > > >>Note that the JFS that IBM put out for Linux is the OS/2 > > > >>JFS -- the only thing of real value it brings to the table, > > > >>IMO, is the btree directory structure, which you can put > > > >>into FFS fairly easily (less than a days work). > > > So why nobody implemented it yet ? > > > > It breaks binary backward compatability. > > Then why has it not been implemented as a mount time or compile time > option? You want patches? They apply (almost) cleanly to a vanilla FreeBSD 2.2.5. Just don't fsck this volume with a stock fsck, or every one of your directories will disappear in a puff of "unknown file type"... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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