Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:51:04 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211005104.U92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:48:58PM -0800 References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> [011211 00:48] wrote:
> 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, porting an FS is trivial, doing it right less so, but
actually taking the time to do it, now that's another matter,
considering I don't have any experience with JFS, porting it
"just to find out" doesn't make it worth my while. Hence
my encouragement of our enthusiastic friend.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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