From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 0: 0:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2ED37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3DF5A786E9; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:30:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:30:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Hiten Pandya , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> 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 In-Reply-To: <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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