From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 19 7:21:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lupo.thebarn.com (x101-182-203.unreg.umn.edu [128.101.182.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6599C150F5; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cattelan@thebarn.com) Received: from thebarn.com ([128.101.182.201]) by lupo.thebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA86916; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:01:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37BB9DAB.E7F0FED0@thebarn.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:01:15 -0500 From: Russell Cattelan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alton, Matthew" Cc: "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" , "'fs@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: BSD-XFS Update References: <0740CBD1D149D31193EB0008C7C56836EB8B05@STLABCEXG012> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Alton, Matthew" wrote: > SGI has released a portion of the XFS source code under the GPL: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/ > > the source file is xfs_log.tar.gz. > > Of greater interest at this stage are the documents in: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/design_docs/ > > I am currently researching methods for implementing the 64-bit > syscalls stat64(), fstat64(), lseek64() &etc. delineated in the > SGI design doc _64 Bit File Access_ by Adam Sweeney. The xxxx64 calls are no longer an issue as of IRIX 6.(something 2 I think) all the standard calls were converted to use 64 bit types directly. Have a better one for you to research. Find out if buffers can be pined? if not what is it going to take to fix that. > > The BSD-XFS port will be made available as a patch to the RELEASE > FreeBSD kernels. Given the size of XFS it might be easier to make FreeBSD a patch to XFS. <- major humor here. :-) :-) > > > Matthew Alton > Computer Services - UNIX Systems Administration > (314)632-6644 matthew.alton@anheuser-busch.com > alton@plantnet.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Russell Cattelan cattelan@thebarn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message