Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:23:47 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <jspedron@club-internet.fr> To: Kalev Lember <kalev@colleduc.ee> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x Message-ID: <41763CB3.8070302@club-internet.fr> In-Reply-To: <41755FAF.8080300@colleduc.ee> References: <417538B9.7070001@club-internet.fr> <41755FAF.8080300@colleduc.ee>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Kalev Lember wrote: > Good job! Thanks a lot :) > 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. This was the first reason why I started this port: after my Linux box was broken (hardware issue), I couldn't read any of its partitions from the FreeBSD box. Supporting multiple file-systems is therefore useful in such cases. The downside of this is that it consumes a lot of time to support every file-systems; time that could be used on just one. > 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. If ReiserFS should be integrated to FreeBSD, a rewrite would be a good thing, because this first port fits the Linux VFS "phylosophy" and doesn't take advantage of FreeBSD's one. If 6-CURRENT brings a new VFS, it could be the occasion to do it. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron http://www.dumbbell-fr.net/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBdjy+a+xGJsFYOlMRAqfcAKCMwZERy5QlmZejeZu7PZm3WCXfpQCfV3X6 IW4AJeoSisE1weEmEoTYNEM= =F2GN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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