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Date:      01 Nov 1999 08:29:59 +0200
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        don@calis.blacksun.org (Don)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: journaling UFS and LFS
Message-ID:  <86hfj63es8.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: don@calis.blacksun.org's message of "30 Oct 1999 19:18:08 %2B0300"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910241018530.5419-100000@piano.innominate.local> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910301210360.43638-100000@calis.blacksun.org>

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don@calis.blacksun.org (Don) writes:

> > and the next question: now that LFS starts to get usable in NetBSD 
> > - has anybody started to look at getting it working again in
> > FreeBSD too (maybe matt ?) or has it on the TODO list
> LFS is being considered as a starting point for this project. The goal is
> to build an extensible file system with features such as the ability to
> grow and shrink partitions, acl's journaling etc.

There is a difference between a log-structured filesystem and a
journaling filesystem...

> XFS is also being considered as a feature reference.

*Very* different from LFS.  (What are features?  "Has files and
directories"?  Time-complexity?  Implementation details?  Buzzwords?)

This seems a bit hard to believe (must check freebsd-fs to see if
people are actually *seriously* considering LFS as a starting
point...).


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