From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Sep 25 3:17:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FEC37B42C; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA36059; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:17:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Dwight Tuinstra , freebsd-fs Subject: Re: Journaling Filesystems in bsd? (LFS, anyone?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Sep 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dwight Tuinstra writes: > > At present, the only working, available LFS system (that I'm aware > > of) for a freeNIX is the one in NetBSD, though there are at least two > > efforts underway for Linux. > > [...] > > Is there any interest in porting/redesigning LFS for FreeBSD? > > If NetBSD has an LFS, I think it would be best to port that and strive > to remain compatible with NetBSD rather than invent our own stuff. NetBSD have an LFS which is at least actively developed, whether or not it's production-grade. However they also don't have a unified buffer cache; lack of developer attention to adapt the code to this being what killed our LFS, as I understand it. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message