From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 10:23:58 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 9E15E16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:23:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.cegetel.net (mf01.sitadelle.com [212.94.174.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF5E43D4C for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:23:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jspedron@club-internet.fr) Received: from [172.16.142.1] (213-223-184-193.dti.cegetel.net [213.223.184.193]) by smtp.cegetel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057A137B7F; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:23:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <41763CB3.8070302@club-internet.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:23:47 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041006 X-Accept-Language: fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kalev Lember References: <417538B9.7070001@club-internet.fr> <41755FAF.8080300@colleduc.ee> In-Reply-To: <41755FAF.8080300@colleduc.ee> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBA40501ACAF6E92B81AC58B0" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:23:58 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBA40501ACAF6E92B81AC58B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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/ --------------enigBA40501ACAF6E92B81AC58B0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- --------------enigBA40501ACAF6E92B81AC58B0--