Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:19:36 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is running out of time Message-ID: <199903310519.AAA01061@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9903310905310.864-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> from Jonathan Chen at "Mar 31, 99 09:10:37 am"
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Jonathan Chen said: > > Will/Should the solution be backward-compatible with all the > FreeBSD FFS already created out there? > > Will we still be using FFS? > Two good questions, and lead to the position that I am taking. A difference of a year or two for the solution is probably not that big a deal. It would be a good thing to structurally update FFS and add nice features (like placement policy and finer grained consistancy control.) The indirect block (mis?)feature (good for the past, but maybe not for the future) is another thing to look at. I am not suggesting that a new filesystem is needed today, but it will be needed (or valuable) someday soon. There is alot of experience on filesystem usage, and I suspect that some improvements could be valuable. What is the threshold for the cost/benefit, and are we close to it? (I don't really know -- this is rhetorical.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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