From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 10 22:51:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C8237B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 7298D81D03; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:51:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:51:04 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Terry Lambert Cc: Hiten Pandya , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211005104.U92148@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:48:58PM -0800 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 * Terry Lambert [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message