Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:31:25 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI releases XFS under GPL Message-ID: <v04220809b5f8bf5ec043@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000928104939.B13020@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20000928104939.B13020@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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At 10:49 AM +0200 2000/9/28, Johann Visagie wrote: > I'm idly wondering whether it would be possible (or indeed desirable) to port > this to FreeBSD. XFS does have some cool features -- IIRC, it is an extent-based log-structured journaling filesystem with directory hashing. This would probably be the closest we'd ever get to having something like Veritas VxFS on FreeBSD. I know we used SGI and XFS extensively at AOL, and up to that point in time, I had never seen anything this fast or that handled large numbers of files in a single directory so well. However, XFS doesn't have "softupdates", and I don't know of any way to apply something like "softupdates" to it. And for what we're doing, I'm not sure how much it matters to us to have something like Veritas VxFS on our machines if that meant we'd have to give up "softupdates". All-in-all, I'm just not sure if the overall net change would be a positive or a negative, and for whom. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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