From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 08:59:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20390 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20380 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:59:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA01670; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:58:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA29731; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:58:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id RAA14734; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:52:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610311652.RAA14734@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: EFS To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:52:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: vadim@tversu.ac.ru Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Oct 30, 96 05:56:24 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Warner Losh wrote: > SGI is currently supporting a Linux port to their machines. However, > I've not seen that code released yet. When it is, maybe that will be > enough documentation to port code. But then again, maybe not. It is > supposed to support efs as well, or so the rumors I've heard say. Btw., IRIX' efs is among the most fragile file systems i've seen (or its particular implementation in IRIX 5.2 and 5.3, maybe). One power failure or panic, and even X servers (guaranteed to be only read, never written) went away through /dev/null... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)