From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 31 13:43:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D4E14C05 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20171; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:43:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200001312143.OAA20171@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: JFS In-Reply-To: <3895A96A.8ABB0B53@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Feb 1, 0 00:25:30 am" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:43:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com, atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > I do know. The main reason why LFS was never updated isn't that it > was made obsolete by softupdates, as claimed above, but that it was > made obsolete by JFS. Why work on LFS if it is not up to a JFS? > Unfortunately, the people who have to suffer enourmous waits after > crashes usually have way more to do, even if they have the skills to > fix LFS. To shove this discussion a bit sideways, SGI announced a while back that they were going to release the source code to their Journaled File System. Does anyone here know that status of that? Wouldn't that be the perfect starting place for a FreeBSD JFS? Do we know what their license will look like? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message