Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:38:05 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045521486.a2e8ef@mired.org> To: "Daxbert" <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> Cc: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, "Heinrich Rebehn" <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why is there no JFS? Message-ID: <15946.52429.222082.74590@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> References: <3E4A5B77.5080103@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A863E.2030801@potentialtech.com> <3E4A8EF5.1070308@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4A9712.8030609@potentialtech.com> <3E4AA331.5040701@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3E4AA734.5040102@potentialtech.com> <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com>
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In <045401c2d2db$f9d45c30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com>, Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> typed: > Is anybody currently working on or does there exist > a JFS for FreeBSD? To the best of my knowledge, there is no JFS, and nobody is working on one. > I've read in the archives, the discussion about > not really needing JFS because of the benefits of > softupdates. As well as some talk about BSD / GPL > license issues. That should have answered most of your questions. Possibly you need the -current and/or -hackers archives as well. > Is there not a JFS for FreeBSD becuase, Softupdates > do the job just fine and nobody has the > time or interest to work on this? Softupdates with a background fsck solve the problem of wanting to come back up quickly after a crash, which is the most common reason people ask for a JFS. > I'm not running FreeBSD 5.x. So I'm not able to take > advantage of the background fsck. Can anybody comment > on their success w/ the background fsck? Someone in the archives indicated that there limited testing things worked fine. I assume Kirk has tested this as well. > If a JFS were to be ported and/or developed for FreeBSD > what should it be based on? XFS, JFS, ReiserFS??? One with a license that will let it be distributed in the core. That lets out GPL'ed code, and I believe it lets out XFS as well, though I'm not positive on that. > Who would be considered the "maintainer" for this type of > work? Whoever did the work, of course. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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