Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:01:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <19990618070108.X9893@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617193357.54678@ns.int.ftf.net>; from Phil Regnauld on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 07:33:57PM %2B0200 References: <199906170132.UAA33702@nospam.hiwaay.net> <12476.929585906@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990617193357.54678@ns.int.ftf.net>
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On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 19:33:57 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >> I think what nobody is said yet is that XFS is going to be such a >> bitch to port, infested with IRIX-isms as it's so likely to be, that >> it also stands every chance of being the next Mozilla project. > > Right -- much of the kernel FS deficiencies of IRIX were reimplemented > directly in XFS. Have you looked at the code? > Can you say: bloated hack ? Can you say "wait and see"? > Softupdates are your friend. Doubtless, but xfs offers other goodies as well. I will certainly take a long, hard look at it when I can get my sticky little fingers on it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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