Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 02:42:44 GMT From: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org, bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606070242.CAA02710@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606052046.NAA29627@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:46:20 -0700 (MST))
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> > Jeffery Hsu is working on the VFS stuff right now, so I would suggest > > waiting until his stuff settles out (or at least track it), but alot > > of prelim work could start immediately. > > > > So, I guess what I am saying is that if someone will take the lead, I'll > > help!!! > > I'm not willing to take the LFS on, right now, but let me echo John's > sentiments: I'll help out in anything I can for you. I suspect that > there will be some UFS code (which is shared by FFS, MFS, and LFS) that > will need to be changed; I'm probably a good guy for that. Well, anyone who does take this on certainly won't be able to complain about lack of help! 8-) > If anyone was thinking about jumping in, if you can get a commit of > John's time like this, then this is probably the best chance you'll > get for a nice, compartmentalized kernel hack, where you don't have > to worry about related systems being killed by whatever changes you > want to make. Actually I was thinking about jumping in, but on portals, as I've just read a paper on it and thought it seemed quite interesting (I found it somewhere under http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/, BTW). On the other hand, if there's going to be a "team assault" on LFS... 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org
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