Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:13:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: JFS2 on freebsd Message-ID: <8656351.1126268001929.JavaMail.root@vms064.mailsrvcs.net>
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>From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> > >On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > >> would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? >> thanks >> -kamal > >There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but >that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're motivated only >because you think others desire your work, you'll probably give up when >you have to start dealing with all the realities of the project. However, >if you're motivated because *you* want to port JFS2, then you'll probably >do a good job of it. > >So, of course support for new filesystem support is good, but my personal >opinion is that JFS2 isn't worth your time, for two reasons: > >a) Even if it's BSD licensed, it's unlikely to displace UFS as our >default filesystem. > >b) It's not a widely used filesystem, so it doesn't really increase our >interoperability with other OSes. > >OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would >be something of use to many people, I suspect. Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has journaling in it. -SB
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