Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 12:04:52 -0700 (PDT) From: John Dyson <dyson> To: pete@dsw.com (Pete Kruckenberg) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Implementation of ext2fs for FreeBSD 2.2? Message-ID: <199510141904.MAA15282@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951014124641.17166C-100000@dsw.dsw.com> from "Pete Kruckenberg" at Oct 14, 95 12:49:15 pm
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> > I've heard that the ext2fs (of Linux fame) is being added for FreeBSD > 2.2. I remember reading several months ago a post by one of the people > who did ext2fs for Linux, that this time it would be "done right", > especially the filesystem quotas. > > If someone could just take a minute, I'd like to know how ext2fs for > FreeBSD will differ from the Linux implementation, whether there'll be > filesystem quotas, and what other improvements it'll offer over ufs and > ffs. > EXT2FS will initially have the hooks for quotas, but I am not sure that I'll be testing that feature soon. It is slower than UFS mostly because the small block size really exercises the performance of the read/write loop. It'll perform approx the same as it does on Linux, even though it uses our new clustering code. The EXT2FS code is mostly a derivative of the UFS code, but a couple of the files are copylefted :-(. I did not do the *BSD EXT2FS code, but Godmar Back who works on Lites did. THANK YOU GODMAR!!!! I simply ported/adapted it to FreeBSD. John dyson@freebsd.org
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