Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:58:44 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010917005844.A62643@NewGold.NET> In-Reply-To: <20010917033118.A1020@hades.hell.gr> References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <3BA5273F.A2131982@mindspring.com> <20010916223009.A53663@NewGold.NET> <20010917033118.A1020@hades.hell.gr>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:31:19AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:27:11PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Dennis Berger wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Note that the JFS that IBM put out for Linux is the OS/2 > > > > >>JFS -- the only thing of real value it brings to the table, > > > > >>IMO, is the btree directory structure, which you can put > > > > >>into FFS fairly easily (less than a days work). > > > > So why nobody implemented it yet ? > > > > > > It breaks binary backward compatability. > > > > Then why has it not been implemented as a mount time or compile time > > option? > > Simple questions also have simple answers. > Because nobody has done it yet. > > There is this motto in the Linux camp that fits very nicely questions > like this one: "Do you have any code to show to us?" > > Please guys. Stop wasting bandwidth to discuss what things would be a > nice idea to do, and asking why nobody else has done or thought of > this before... If you (or anyone else, this is not personal) think > you can do something, then please, go ahead and do it. > Errr sorry, you seem to have misunderstood what -i- was talking about... I was under the impression such things may have already been done to some extent, and aside from it breaking binary compat, I wondered why nobody had made it a possible option, at the very least. I'd be glad to do the work to make it optional, if I had code that worked for FFS. I'm not interested in doing the code for FFS itself, but I'd be glad to do what I asked about, which is to make such code optional, as it would be likely to break binary compatability. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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