From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Apr 25 4:54:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from ns.caldera.de (ns.caldera.de [212.34.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F6837B423; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 04:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hch@ns.caldera.de) Received: (from hch@localhost) by ns.caldera.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3PBriK08714; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:53:44 +0200 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:53:44 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Troy M. Barnhart" Cc: bv@wjv.com, Robert Watson , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: journeling fs Message-ID: <20010425135344.A7732@caldera.de> References: <20010425070923.B4313@wjv.com> <200104251139.FAA88384@rapidnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104251139.FAA88384@rapidnet.com>; from barney@rapidnet.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:39:47AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:39:47AM -0600, Troy M. Barnhart wrote: > I've heard from three different sources that developers on IBM's AIX > team are looking at FreeBSD to port over their JFS. > (The newest AIX implementation was re-wrote on a Linux kernel.) *LOL* AIX contains a lot SVR5 (UnixWare) Code - not Linux. They just have a port of the GNU libc and some other stuff commonly found in the Userlevel of Linux distributions. The AIX JFS isn't easily portable to any other UNIX - it's is deeply tied to the Memory Managment of AIX which is _very_ different from all other UNIX VM Architectures. (Do I have to say 256K segments?). Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message