From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 10 22:48:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E6537B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0031.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.31] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Dgig-0006W3-00; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:48:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:48:58 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Hiten Pandya , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: [ ... Hiten wants someone to GPLify FreeBSD ... ] > I'm glad you took the time to read the marketting literature. > > The problem is that porting it is going to be a bit more complicated > than just dumping it into src/gnu. > > Feel free to take a shot at porting it though, let us know > when you're done. FS porting to FreeBSD is actually pretty trivial(*), though some transactioning changes to the FreeBSD VFS layer consumers (the system calls and NFS server code) would be necessary to make the journal roll-back function correctly, following a failure. (*) Trivial: meaning grunt work is required; not necessarily an indicator of the amount of work, only the intellectual effort required for the job -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message