From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Oct 30 18:41:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B10414E9D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@137.org) Received: from ameslab.gov (friley-160-235.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.235]) by friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B84176; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:41:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <381B9E4C.1B94BD83@ameslab.gov> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:41:32 -0500 From: Chris Csanady X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, ja, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Features of a journaled file system References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don wrote: > > What are the features people would like to see in a new FreeBSD file > system? Some of the ones I have heard listed are: > 1. Ability to grow a FS > 2. Ability to shrink a FS > 3. Acess control lists on files and file systems > 4. Extensibility. (The ability to easily add new features to the > filesystem without having to rewrite utilities such as fsck) 5. Snapshots > What else should we be considering? > (Obviously any file system that would be written would have to be stable, > fast and efficient) > Should the file system use b-trees? What other technologies should such a > file system make use of? Probably, at least for large directories. Has anyone else looked at reiserfs? It seems like they are doing some good work there. I would encourage you to pester them about the licensing. :) It seems like it would be in everyones best interests if we had a common filesystem. This is a *lot* of work to duplicate, and only lessens portability. This is one of the nicer aspects of the BSD filesystem.. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message