Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org> Cc: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: kern/47982: Minix fs offered for RELEASE 5.0 Message-ID: <20030317133453.I21954-100000@jordan.llnl.gov> In-Reply-To: <xzpadft4r1u.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > This is not very likely to float unless you can argue convincingly > that it will have a sufficiently large user base to not simply rot in > the tree. Honestly, I think you'd have a very hard time of it; you'd > be better off turning your code into a port. Take a look at the > audio/aureal-kmod port for an example of a port that installs a > loadable module. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > It's not necessary that it "floats as you say". First of all it only exists as a module now! It does not compile in "static". I wonder if all of the countless little modules that exist in /book/kernel now are as useful as an FS even though it is only a research FS and not a "production" FS. Secondly, I've never heard of an FS presented as a "port". Thirdly, The VFS in FreeBSD changes enough between each RELEASE, that a port is unfeasible. It would mean changing the port after each new release of FreeBSD! That is contrary to the spirit of a port, which is designed to function mainly in USERLAND! Thirdly, The reason that I submitted the FS was to try and reduce the e-mail requests that I'm getting about diffs for the FS. There seems to be some students around the world interested in getting Minix in FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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