From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jul 22 12:32:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011E837B405 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keichii@iteration.net) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 28E0959227; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:32:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:32:21 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Doug Rabson Cc: Sri Ramkrishna , Alfred Perlstein , Jason Francis , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010722143220.A7100@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <20010716134550.B16516@ichips.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:53:47PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Doug Rabson scribbled: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > > It's like wheat germ stuff that are popular in the south. It's somehwat > > like oats. They usually have it with a lot of butter or some jelly. > > It's mostly tasteless. > > Sounds a lot like porridge :-(. In London, go have rice porridge (sometimes called rice soup) :) in Cantonese restaurants in Chinatown. A dimsum place should have it. Ask for a rice porridge with beef and a raw egg in it. The soup is hot, so the raw egg is cooked when you stir the soup, and the soup is hence cooled down to a nice temperature. Try it before you really decide to hate porridge. :) > > To keep this on topic though, I remember some talk about journalling > > filesystems and getting that. Hopefully we'll have one one of these > > days. With disks getting larger and larger (EMC has 181G drives) it's > > getting harder not to go with a journalling type of filesystem. In > > any case, it's just a off hand comment. We'll get there I'm sure. > > Actually, back on topic, I think that FFS+softupdatess+background fsck > gives virtually all the benefits of journalled filesystems. We may need to improve FFS a bit and enhance it with some good features like a versioned filesystem, cryptofs with kernel support, AFS-like features of switching data between volumes, failover writes, etc. -- Michael C. Wu +1-512-7757700 keichii@{iteration.net|freebsd.org} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message