Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:26:48 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Marca Registrada <inf@nyef.res.cmu.edu> Cc: hackers list FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212132245.23180A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980212123955.08290@nyef.res.cmu.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Marca Registrada wrote: > > I'm also extremely interested in using Coda on FreeBSD, and have offered > as much help as I can to Peter Braam, but CMU keeps their students fairly > busy ;), so the amount of actual codework I can put forth is rather > limited. I'm still waiting for the release of the FreeBSD code so I can > least get started playing with it. > The current Coda release that I know of for FreeBSD is supposed to be for > -stable, so my first project may be to port it to -current (although I've > heard this may be difficult), and it would be easier for me to make light > contributions from time to time to do whatever is necessary when the > -stable-patched are unworkable for -current. gneat :) > > > Quoting Charles Owens (owensc@enc.edu): > > * Development, particularly in the area of scalability, is focused on > > Linux. Why? His stated reasons: > > > > * Linux's ext2fs filesystem is much faster than *BSD's ffs > > (How good is FreeBSD's ext2fs support these days? Is > > it in 2.2.6 or must we wait for 3.0?) turn on async mounting of FFS in FBSD an recompare.... (ext2fs is async by default). > > * Current work is being done to develop Linux kernel extensions that > > will allow access to files via raw inodes. This development is > > seen as key to allowing Coda to support large filespaces with > > reasonable performance. See this URL for Peter's notes on > > these extensions: > > From the latest I heard on the Coda lists, Linus is very against this > becuase he feels it ruins the consistency of the FS interface. This of > course can change at any moment. The current proposal is to make an > filesystem where inodes can be accessed directly as files.. ie: This is the 'old' way things work, before SUN devloped the vnode idea. That idea also has made a LFS/JFS based filesystem damn=ed near impossible to implement (as a friend painfully discovered.) Anyway, the AFS work is progressing ( unfortunately slowly because of my recent workload), I am hoping to have more time to work on this soon. -- David Cross UNIX Systems Administrator GE Corporate R&D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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