Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:12:07 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606101412.AA062675927@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <21463.834407438@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 10, 96 12:50:38 pm
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In his e-mail Gary Palmer wrote: > > "Hr.Ladavac" wrote in message ID > <199606100951.AA244850291@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>: > > Portals are great. Especially since I have a ClearCase clone that works > > with symlinks, and which would benefit immensely from a working portal > > interface. Can you say MVFS? I thought you could :) There is no end of > > things one can achieve with a working portalfs. > > May I ask what you feel is missing/broken from Portals? (I haven't > read the paper, but I have worked on improving our portal FS already) Well, all I've seen is what I've seen in the manpage and sources. I did not actually test it, but I think one needs the ability to add more than /p/ip and /p/unix (whatever they are named.) I'd like to use it as a clone of Atria MVFS and ClearAudit. Naturally, my portal daemon will have to do that, somehow. Since I did not test it, do the portals work, and from which OS version onwards? > > > This leads to another point. It seems to me that there will be some > > co-op work on (new) filesystems under FreeBSD. How about freebsd-fs > > mailing list? > > There is one already I think :-) Shall we move there, then? /Marino > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info >
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