From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 16:28:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4AB737B405; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:28:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 16F3C786E3; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:58:15 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:58:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Hiten Pandya , Matthew Emmerton , Anthony Schneider Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011211105815.L63585@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20011210174711.A3208@mail.slc.edu> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011211105617.K63585@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011211105617.K63585@monorchid.lemis.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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 10:56:17 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:39:35 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >>> * Hiten Pandya [011210 16:02] wrote: >>>> hi all, >>>> >>>> this is a wild idea...suggestion... >>>> >>>> i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port >>>> JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... >>>> >>>> as for JFS, it is developed by IBM for Linux and >>>> is licensed under GPL, so we could put this into >>>> src/gnu/ >>>> >>>> It is used on IBM MainFrames and Enterprise servers >>>> for >>>> high performance and maximum throughput... >>> >>> 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. >> >> I'm gainfully employed by IBM (although not for FreeBSD pursuits), >> and have had this on my TODO list for a while. > > Well, I'm gainfully employed by IBM, both for FreeBSD and JFS. I've > thought (and spoken) about this from time to time. It would be a lot > of work. BTW, if anybody wants to do it anyway, let me know. I'm in a position to help with information, though possibly not with coding. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message