From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 30 13:15:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3121065670; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:15:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us) Received: from blade.simplesystems.org (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FFC8FC15; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5UD21e1023158; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:02:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:02:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn X-X-Sender: bfriesen@freddy.simplesystems.org To: Thomas Mueller In-Reply-To: <43.6E.23439.7DD7EEF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Message-ID: References: <43.6E.23439.7DD7EEF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:02:01 -0500 (CDT) Cc: FreeBSD FS , Attilio Rao Subject: Re: MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:15:47 -0000 On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I've been wondering about the status of XFS in (Free or other)BSD, > know it's in ports and is usable in Linux. > > I think you can even run Linux on XFS instead of ext(2,3 or 4)fs, or ReiserFS, or btrfs. You can not only run Linux on XFS (which I do) but it is still likely the most reliable and consistently performant of the filesystems available in Linux because of its origin and its maturity. XFS did not originate in Linux (it originated in SGI's Irix) so it should not surprise that Linux core developers are proponents of filesystems originally developed under Linux. Regardless, a key value of *BSD supporting non-native filesystems is in order to be able to access filesystems created on other OSs. XFS is a major filesystem so hopefully someone will volunteer to support it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/