Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:30:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com>
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On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:48:58 -0800, Terry Lambert 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 Considering that the current UFS implementation didn't need to be ported, and people are still working on the details, I think that this is a highly misleading statement. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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