Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:12:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ufs is too slow? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961112135927.17280A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199611121755.KAA20485@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Just FYI, NTFS will not be the "server" filesystem for NT 5.0. It will be > > replaced with the Veritas File System and the Veritas volume manager. > > Heh. I knew that. > > I'm interested to know what they plan to do about upgrade, though... I I just checked, and all they mention in the press_release is that they will be using the Veritas Volume Manger - I don't kow if this _necessarily_ implies use of the Veritas File sSystem. And when you look at it, all the veritas file system does above and beyond a NTFS is the ability to 'Live" manage volumes. Please correct me if I'm wrong. They even talk about the performance increases through the use of 'extents" - the same terminology is used to decribe NTFS. To me, they really don't seem that different, and they mention an upgrade procut to be released in mid 1997 for existing NT 4.0 servers -- all this leads me to believe that they might be implementing the volume manager on exisiting NTFS filesystems. All that said, do you think it's worth my time to try and implement NTFS support under FreBSD? I was thinking of trying to get the existing Linux code ruuing, and adding the ability for it to read the 8.3 short file names, but under writeds only write out the long Unicode file name to increase performance. I agree with Terry that NTFS could be significantly faster on a non backwords compatible non-microsoft implementation. Thoughts? -Mark --------------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | RingZero Comp. vinyl.quickweb.com/mark | --------------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch > know 4.0 dropped HPFS, and *no* upgrade path was given... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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