From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Feb 26 20: 7:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341E937B491; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01053; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:03:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA7VaO.b; Mon Feb 26 21:03:53 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA11556; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:06:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102270406.VAA11556@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:06:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu ((Zhiui Zhang)), sam@errno.com ((Sam Leffler)), jar@integratus.com ((Jack Rusher)), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com ((Daniel C. Sobral)) In-Reply-To: from "Daniel O'Connor" at Feb 27, 2001 02:21:56 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some > > other FS type because otherwise I can't boot. > > And, err, how hard is it to add support to the loader for this? > > It's read only which makes it simpler, and the code is well structured.. Not hard at all, if you are willing and able to GPL the loader to make linking it with GPL'ed R/O XFS code legal to distribute. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message