Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:59:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Edwin Mons <edwinm@email.spcgroup.nl> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br Subject: Re: JFS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001311455490.3045-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10001312249110.25665-100000@email.spcgroup.nl>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Edwin Mons wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > 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? > > It's not released yet, but there are some code-fragments released to > public already. As far as I know, it will be released under the GPL. It's > named XFS, and you can find information here: > http://http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs The indications are that it will at least a year before XFS works under Linux. ReiserFS is journalled, and mostly works now. It could be a port candidate. There is also ext3, which is supposed to replace ext2 on Linux. It has journaling and ACLs. It mostly works. Basically, a lot development and testing needs to be done before any open-source OS has a completely working journalled filesystem. > Regards, > Intosi Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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