Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:54:41 -0500 From: "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com> To: "'Kenny Drobnack'" <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> Cc: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Journaling file system Message-ID: <0740CBD1D149D31193EB0008C7C56836EB8B0A@STLABCEXG012>
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A straight port of SGI's GPLed XFS to the FreeBSD 4.x kernel is underway. The code will not be submitted for inclusion in the FreeBSD source tree due to licensing conflicts. FreeBSD XFS will be made available as a kernel patch + utilities. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenny Drobnack [SMTP:kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu] > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 2:07 PM > To: Charles Randall > Cc: Jason J. Horton; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Alton, Matthew > Subject: RE: Journaling file system > > So FreeBSD is going to get its own filesystem based on XFS? Or is it going > to be ported? Maybe add journalling to FFS? Maybe I should go ask on > -hackers.... > > > This discussion is going on in -hackers. Matthew Alton appears to be doing > > some preliminary analysis based on the XFS design docs. > > > > Charles > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason J. Horton [mailto:jason@intercom.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 9:58 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Journaling file system > > > > > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ > > > > Any plans on making XFS an FS option on FreeBSD? > > Or does FFS do some of the nice features that XFS does? > > Has anyone gotten in touch with people @ SGI regarding > > a port? > > > > I would assume an XFS type file system would greatly > > compliment SCSI to SCSI or FibreChannel RAID arrays. > > > > -- > > -Jason J. Horton <jason@intercom.com> > > Moving Target > > Intercom Online Inc. > > 212.376.7440 ext 21 | http://www.intercom.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > ----- > > Knight 1: We are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! > Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" > > ---- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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