From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 16 18:42:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF9337B41C for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5CA706ACC1; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:10:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:10:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Francis Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010717111034.D70499@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010712225653.75AD13811@overcee.netplex.com.au> <003001c10e33$f3e3fb50$0200000a@Neptune> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003001c10e33$f3e3fb50$0200000a@Neptune>; from jasonf@citynet.net on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:14:42PM -0400 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-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 16 July 2001 at 16:14:42 -0400, Jason Francis wrote: > Has the proposition of porting another filesystem to FreeBSD been > considered? Yes. > Given FFS's rather dismal performance compared to other filesystems, > it would seem like a worthwhile effort. Do you have figures? Most people who talk about file system performance can't back it up. > Market share of BSD in generally is dwindling, and things like the > filesystem, lack of a multi-threaded IP stack, and lacking SMP > support are precisely what's killing it. This doesn't tie up with my observations. Again, I'd be interested in your figures. > So, has there been any effort made by the community to get either a > new filesystem written or an existing filesystem ported to FreeBSD? I've been thinking about it. If you want to start on one, I'll certainly be available to answer questions, but I don't have time to do much work on it myself. Which file system were you thinking of. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message