From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 12 10:27:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06325 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06286 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA25494; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:26:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:26:48 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: Marca Registrada cc: hackers list FreeBSD Subject: Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux In-Reply-To: <19980212123955.08290@nyef.res.cmu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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