From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Sep 16 17:59:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from Aphex.NewGold.NET (aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2FB37B403 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmallett@localhost) by Aphex.NewGold.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8H0wn072220; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:58:49 GMT (envelope-from jmallett) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:58:44 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Terry Lambert , Dennis Berger , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010917005844.A62643@NewGold.NET> References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> <3BA5273F.A2131982@mindspring.com> <20010916223009.A53663@NewGold.NET> <20010917033118.A1020@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010917033118.A1020@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organisation: New Gold Technology Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:31:19AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Joseph Mallett 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