From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Sep 16 15:26:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7B537B40C for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.132.139.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.132.139]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13892; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA5273F.A2131982@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:27:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Berger Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD References: <3BA4B507.CC70ECD4@nipsi.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dennis Berger wrote: > > >>Note that the JFS that IBM put out for Linux is the OS/2 > >>JFS -- the only thing of real value it brings to the table, > >>IMO, is the btree directory structure, which you can put > >>into FFS fairly easily (less than a days work). > So why nobody implemented it yet ? It breaks binary backward compatability. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message