From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Jul 30 19:27:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3429237B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DC4906ACBC; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:57:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:57:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: m p , jasonf@citynet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:22:29AM +0000 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 31 July 2001 at 2:22:29 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> JFS would be a nice thing for >> mail/database/http/file-servers. I can not state "that >> filesystem is better than this". But a filesystem >> developed by a big company to use it with linux - why >> do we not port it? > > The license prevents us from using it as the boot FS, so > we might as well just use an FS we are allowed to boot > from, instead, since we have to have it around anyway. > > Note that the JFS that IBM put out for Linux is the OS/2 > JFS -- the only thing of real value it brings to the table, > IMO, is the btree directory structure, which you can put > into FFS fairly easily (less than a days work). The OS/2 JFS was the basis for the "new" JFS 2 under AIX. There would have been little point in releasing the sources for the "old" JFS, which is being phased out. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message