From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 08:56:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7570F16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C3043F3F for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ps@mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EF1592ED477; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:56:09 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Andrew Kinney , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030905155609.GA35141@elvis.mu.org> References: <3F56352F.7050701@acm.org> <3F573729.8917.53574D7@localhost> <20030904232520.GA13977@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030904232520.GA13977@HAL9000.homeunix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:56:10 -0000 David Schultz (das@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote: > > >From my brief research on the subject, the FreeBSD community > > has been highly resistant to supporting third party filesystems > > precisely because nobody with such needs as yours has ever > > contributed the code necessary to make third party filesystem > > support a reality. The response is usually something like "if you > > want it, go program it and submit it to a committer for review," > > which is really the only reasonable response that can be made > > given FreeBSD's goals. > > There's probably only a handful of committers who have access to > the quantities of storage that would make this kind of filesystem > development interesting. Meanwhile, UFS2 is perfectly adequate > for most systems. I would imagine that an interested company > would have to step forward and fund this sort of work. Moreover, > there are licensing issues that would have to be considered to do > a port of an existing filesystem... If people are wanting to work on filesystems > 2TB, committers who want access to tank.freebsd.org can request it. The machine has 3TB of disk space available.