Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:07:57 +0100 From: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch> To: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem hacking Message-ID: <34D3AECD.218E85DB@pipeline.ch> References: <199801312252.QAA10636@friley585.res.iastate.edu>
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Chris Csanady wrote: > > >I have decided to code up an IBM-style journaling filesystem > >(jfs) with maximum portability for free unices. While I'm at it > >I had might as well have the clean-bits map to a PP/extent > >disk arrangement which will act as a useful abstraction for a > >Logical Volume Manager / Veritas -esque disk management > >system which I also find interesting enough to code up. > > This is quite nice to hear, I would love to see a journaling file system > for FreeBSD. If you were to base it on JFS, you might want to talk > to Terry as I believe that he has written a read only version. If > you were to make it compatible with as existing fs, I think that SGI's > XFS would be the way to go. I think that it is considerably better > than JFS. See the white paper.. > > http://www.sgi.com/Technology/xfs-whitepaper.html This is the whitepaper of the new Novell Netware Filesystem, it's a hybrid between filesystem and database. http://www.novell.com/products/nss/whtpaper.html This paper shows very good the concept of the Novell Storage Services. -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch
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