From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 16:51:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804B516A49E for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:51:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7B543D78 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:51:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k8RGM7OJ006888; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:22:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <451AA52F.2020408@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:22:07 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, kmholla@gmail.com References: <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200609271307.k8RD7G01016290@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1947/Tue Sep 26 19:46:56 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Hi: Porting Cramfs on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:51:33 -0000 On 09/27/06 08:07, Oliver Fromme wrote: > krishnamurthy holla wrote: > > I want to port cramfs to freebsd-6.1 ; can anybody give me > > some tips about how to port.. > > I think porting cramfs is not a good idea. It's GPL'ed, > doesn't fully support POSIX semantics, and has severe > limitations (16 MB maximum file size, 256 MB maximum file > system size). > > It is probably better to design a new file system from > scratch (and make it BSD-licensed). > > Just my 2 cents. > > Best regards > Oliver > I'm currently working on a tarfs, that will do something similar to this, except it allows you to use a regular tar file as the file system image. I don't have compression working yet, but that is on the roadmap. It's also more fully featured than cramfs - it will support the full uid/gids, . and .. directories, hard links, large file system sizes (based on available memory), real timestamps, full permissions (but not extended attributes), and will be BSD licensed. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------