Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <19970416224649.GY47914@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970416121737.18806A-100000@well.com>; from Ian Kallen on Apr 16, 1997 12:23:16 -0700 References: <5j15f4$mmg@hoax.cse.tek.com> <Pine.GSO.3.93.970416121737.18806A-100000@well.com>
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As Ian Kallen wrote:
> There's also Linux support for SGI's efs that I'd be very happy to
> use under FreeBSD were it available -- anybody working on _that_?
Back in the days when i have been working with IRIX machines, i had to
find out the hard way that efs was the most fragile filesystem i've
ever seen on earth. It was even more fragile than the old S51K
filesystem of SVR3.x, and this means a lot!
That's not to flame some{one,thing}, but just as a note that i
wouldn't spend a second in any code for this filesystem. If you're
serious about filesystem work, you might think about AIX's JFS. :-)
That's still among the best filesystems i've seen so far. There's a
German un-word these days, ``unkaputtbar''. Well, since you Americans
have lent the German `kaputt', i guess you figure out what this
means... (the German suffix `-bar' is about the same as the English
suffix `-able'). JFS is just this, ``unkaputtbar''. You turn the
machine off full-steam, turn it on again, and it happily tells you
``filesystem is clean, no check needed''. ;)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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