Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:56:09 -0700 From: Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Kinney <andykinney@advantagecom.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????) Message-ID: <20030905155609.GA35141@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030904232520.GA13977@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <3F56352F.7050701@acm.org> <3F573729.8917.53574D7@localhost> <20030904232520.GA13977@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz (das@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote: > > >From my brief research on the subject, the FreeBSD community > > has been highly resistant to supporting third party filesystems > > precisely because nobody with such needs as yours has ever > > contributed the code necessary to make third party filesystem > > support a reality. The response is usually something like "if you > > want it, go program it and submit it to a committer for review," > > which is really the only reasonable response that can be made > > given FreeBSD's goals. > > There's probably only a handful of committers who have access to > the quantities of storage that would make this kind of filesystem > development interesting. Meanwhile, UFS2 is perfectly adequate > for most systems. I would imagine that an interested company > would have to step forward and fund this sort of work. Moreover, > there are licensing issues that would have to be considered to do > a port of an existing filesystem... If people are wanting to work on filesystems > 2TB, committers who want access to tank.freebsd.org can request it. The machine has 3TB of disk space available.
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