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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 1996 02:42:44 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        terry@lambert.org
Cc:        dyson@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org, bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
Message-ID:  <199606070242.CAA02710@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199606052046.NAA29627@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:46:20 -0700 (MST))

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> > Jeffery Hsu is working on the VFS stuff right now, so I would suggest
> > waiting until his stuff settles out (or at least track it), but alot
> > of prelim work could start immediately.
> > 
> > So, I guess what I am saying is that if someone will take the lead, I'll
> > help!!!
> 
> I'm not willing to take the LFS on, right now, but let me echo John's
> sentiments:  I'll help out in anything I can for you.  I suspect that
> there will be some UFS code (which is shared by FFS, MFS, and LFS) that
> will need to be changed; I'm probably a good guy for that.

Well, anyone who does take this on certainly won't be able to complain
about lack of help! 8-)

> If anyone was thinking about jumping in, if you can get a commit of
> John's time like this, then this is probably the best chance you'll
> get for a nice, compartmentalized kernel hack, where you don't have
> to worry about related systems being killed by whatever changes you
> want to make.

Actually I was thinking about jumping in, but on portals, as I've just
read a paper on it and thought it seemed quite interesting (I found it
somewhere under http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/, BTW).

On the other hand, if there's going to be a "team assault" on
LFS... 8-)

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org




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