From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 18:40:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F9616A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:40:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kiire.colleduc.ee (myyr.colleduc.ee [193.40.113.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42B043D1F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalev@colleduc.ee) Received: from [192.168.2.59] (mail.smartlink.ee [213.180.16.242]) (authenticated bits=0) by kiire.colleduc.ee (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9JIelW2017136 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:40:48 +0300 Message-ID: <41755FAF.8080300@colleduc.ee> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:40:47 +0300 From: Kalev Lember User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <417538B9.7070001@club-internet.fr> In-Reply-To: <417538B9.7070001@club-internet.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/527/Tue Oct 12 20:54:04 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.28.0.7; VDF 6.28.0.24 cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= Subject: Re: Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:40:55 -0000 Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: > Since this summer, I've been working on bringing read-only ReiserFS > support to FreeBSD 5.x. Based on Linux 2.6.7, it seems now fairly stable > on the boxes I use, and it's time to share it with the community. > Because this is my first kernel development, I guess it's buggy and > slow, so use with caution :) Furthermore, you should know this is under > the GNU GPL license. Good job! One of the things I have missed in FreeBSD is a good journaling filesystem. This is one of the places where Linux beats BSD: Linux supports far more filesystems that the BSDs do. Writing a journaling filesystem from scratch is not a trivial thing to do, however. Maybe we should consider using ReiserFS or some other journaling one as FreeBSD's primary filesystem now that the 6-current is branched? One of the issues with ReiserFS is the licence of course. -- Best regards, Kalev Lember