From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Oct 26 21:25: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from calis.blacksun.org (Calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBE514A18 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: from localhost (don@localhost) by calis.blacksun.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA34426 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:26:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:26:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Journaling Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On the subject of a journaled file system for FreeBSD: I am sure a lot of people have pondered the construction of a journaled file system for FreeBSD. I would like to see these pondering's become a reality. I have been speaking to a variety of people who are very interested in becoming involved in such a project should one be started. Basically I would like to know if anyone here is interested in creating a journaled file system and who would be willing to donate time and programming skills to such a project. This would be a rather large undertaking but it would get FreeBSD a world class file system. Also, some work along these lines was already done with LFS and it does not look as if XFS is going to be strolling down the pike any time soon. (And even if it did it wont have a copyright that FreeBSD could really use) In summary: I am assuming there is no journaled file system project already under way. (If there is please let me know so that I can donate any help I can) This project would need people willing to work hard and who would be willing to use the BSD license for their work. This project would not be meant to replace or usurp either softupdates or UFS for a long time. It is meant to provide a more fault tolerant, flexible, "free" (i.e. BSD license) file system for FreeBSD. Any information that anyone is willing to share would be very welcome. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message