From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 14:38:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923BD37B405 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D4C943FA3 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:38:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045521486.a2e8ef@mired.org) Received: (qmail 59561 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2003 22:38:06 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 12 Feb 2003 22:38:06 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15946.52429.222082.74590@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:38:05 -0600 To: "Daxbert" Cc: "Bill Moran" , "Heinrich Rebehn" , , Subject: Re: Why is there no JFS? In-Reply-To: <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> References: <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A9712.8030609@potentialtech.com> <3E4AA331.5040701@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4AA734.5040102@potentialtech.com> <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com>, Daxbert typed: > Is anybody currently working on or does there exist > a JFS for FreeBSD? To the best of my knowledge, there is no JFS, and nobody is working on one. > I've read in the archives, the discussion about > not really needing JFS because of the benefits of > softupdates. As well as some talk about BSD / GPL > license issues. That should have answered most of your questions. Possibly you need the -current and/or -hackers archives as well. > Is there not a JFS for FreeBSD becuase, Softupdates > do the job just fine and nobody has the > time or interest to work on this? Softupdates with a background fsck solve the problem of wanting to come back up quickly after a crash, which is the most common reason people ask for a JFS. > I'm not running FreeBSD 5.x. So I'm not able to take > advantage of the background fsck. Can anybody comment > on their success w/ the background fsck? Someone in the archives indicated that there limited testing things worked fine. I assume Kirk has tested this as well. > If a JFS were to be ported and/or developed for FreeBSD > what should it be based on? XFS, JFS, ReiserFS??? One with a license that will let it be distributed in the core. That lets out GPL'ed code, and I believe it lets out XFS as well, though I'm not positive on that. > Who would be considered the "maintainer" for this type of > work? Whoever did the work, of course. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message