From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 17 13:47:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCA037B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from jordan.llnl.gov (jordan.llnl.gov [128.115.36.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A1943F3F for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alley1@llnl.gov) Received: from jordan.llnl.gov (a010fdc244559c9c739285d71dc29fb2@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jordan.llnl.gov (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2HLllO4021962; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (wea@localhost) by jordan.llnl.gov (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h2HLlllg021959; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ed Alley To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Cc: Subject: Re: kern/47982: Minix fs offered for RELEASE 5.0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030317133453.I21954-100000@jordan.llnl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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