From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 17 14:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D279C14E4C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA06474; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:01:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA54316; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:01:10 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:01:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Phil Regnauld Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <19990618070108.X9893@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199906170132.UAA33702@nospam.hiwaay.net> <12476.929585906@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990617193357.54678@ns.int.ftf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990617193357.54678@ns.int.ftf.net>; from Phil Regnauld on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:33:57PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 19:33:57 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >> I think what nobody is said yet is that XFS is going to be such a >> bitch to port, infested with IRIX-isms as it's so likely to be, that >> it also stands every chance of being the next Mozilla project. > > Right -- much of the kernel FS deficiencies of IRIX were reimplemented > directly in XFS. Have you looked at the code? > Can you say: bloated hack ? Can you say "wait and see"? > Softupdates are your friend. Doubtless, but xfs offers other goodies as well. I will certainly take a long, hard look at it when I can get my sticky little fingers on it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message