Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:06:30 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: Aaron Smith <aaron@veritas.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <199704170606.BAA10948@nyx.pr.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:39:48 -0700. <3355B7A4.4C01@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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>1) Since FreeBSD is not a democracy, we should all agree on technical >terms to arrange this problem. There is this fs list that has almost no >volume of use, so I guess we have seen little technical arguments. Speaking of the relative inactivity on the filesystems list, I find it ironic that we have not found a way to integrate Terry's work yet. He seems to be one of the few people that has a grasp of all the issues involved, and has tried to fix some of them. I seriously doubt that Terry has anything but good intentions. From all the posts and email I have seen from him, I'd have to say that he is fairly experienced when it comes to filesystems and SMP, and has proposed some valuable ideas. It just dissapoints me to see these threads end up in Terry bashing time and again. I'd like to see this resolved as much as the next person, but I'd also hate to see all of his work thrown away because of some personal conflicts. We really are all on the same side here, and should not lost sight of that. >2) I'm not a FS expert, but it's absolutely clear that the changes Terry >proposes are innecesary. On the other hand if they work, as he claims, >they could bring many advantages, especially in performance, and >although I haven't seen tests on our filesystems, there is no reason to >believe they are particulary efficient with respect to other OS's. I don't think that anyone would dispute that the current VFS framework is somewhat flawed, and I for one would love to see this fixed. It would be great to see quotas seperated out from the fs's, and other layers such as encryption/compression/acls and such. As I understand it, some of this is not currently possible, and no one else is really working on it. Anyways, I really hope no one reads anything hostile into this mail--I'm just another user who would like to see FreeBSD improved.. --Chris Csanady
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