From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 09:20:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716F916A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:20:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0DC43D45 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:20:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A375546BD5; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:20:44 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ulrich Spoerlein In-Reply-To: <20050912085455.GA1008@galgenberg.net> Message-ID: <20050912101951.H33344@fledge.watson.org> References: <868xyack37.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050906191929.E78038@fledge.watson.org> <200509070215.j872FeQE040259@apollo.backplane.com> <20050907111035.B85520@fledge.watson.org> <200509071623.j87GNpal043201@apollo.backplane.com> <20050909122506.K33344@fledge.watson.org> <20050912085455.GA1008@galgenberg.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Kamal R. Prasad" Subject: Re: JFS2 on freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:20:45 -0000 On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > On Fri, 09.09.2005 at 12:28:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: >>> Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? >> There has been recent work to port several of the newer Linux file systems to FreeBSD, >> including: > > What about the Google SoC project of porting FUSE to FreeBSD? I think > this could be the next best thing with regard to supporting non-BSD > filesystems. > > Iff the user-space FS implementations of FUSE are portable, this would > bring support of numerous FS to FreeBSD: SMB via FUSE, SSHFS, > gphoto2-fuse-fs (I really could use this one), NTFS (with read/write > support) and others. > > Now some "Linux guy" could re-implement ext3fs in FUSE and some other > hacker could do a UFS/UFS2 port and then Linux and FreeBSD would have > better implementations of the other's FS. > > No, I'm not volunteering, and since I don't know much about porting FS > anyway, this all might be a dream. But my understanding of FUSE is that > this should be possible. I think this is a useful approach for occasional file access, but I think the general interest in the more interesting Linux file systems is for less than occasional use. I.e., not just migration of data from Linux to FreeBSD, but for daily use in production on high performance systems. Robert N M Watson