From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 10:57: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7571137B416; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.22] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fBEIqOi22310; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:52:25 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011213093555.76629.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011213093555.76629.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:54:45 +0100 To: Hiten Pandya , Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, chat@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:35 AM -0800 on 2001/12/13, Hiten Pandya wrote: > It is better to port JFS then re-inventing the wheel, > and we will get a lot of help from outsiders. True, but we already know what IBM's answer will be to this question. Therefore, it makes little sense to waste our time asking it. IMO, we'd be better off asking SGI (and their former employees) about XFS. Or just come up with our own journaling filesystem that is totally independant of the IBM code (satisfies the same design goals at the highest level, but below that point shares no specifications or implementation details). Indeed, I think we could safely argue that softupdates is a long ways towards this goal as it is, and that in many ways it is superior. Combine that with dirprefs and dirhash, and I see very little reason to want JFS. -- Brad Knowles, H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message