Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:47:11 -0500 From: Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011210174711.A3208@mail.slc.edu> In-Reply-To: <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:39:35PM -0500 References: <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <002601c181cb$8c6a5e90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm no expert on journaled filesystems, but isn't the freebsd softupdates option similar? perhaps there could be an upgrade to offer options SOFTERUPDATES as an equal-but-different alternative to jfs? -Anthony. On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:39:35PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > * Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> [011210 16:02] wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > > > this is a wild idea...suggestion... > > > > > > i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port > > > JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... > > > > > > as for JFS, it is developed by IBM for Linux and > > > is licensed under GPL, so we could put this into > > > src/gnu/ > > > > > > It is used on IBM MainFrames and Enterprise servers > > > for > > > high performance and maximum throughput... > > > > I'm glad you took the time to read the marketting literature. > > > > The problem is that porting it is going to be a bit more complicated > > than just dumping it into src/gnu. > > > > Feel free to take a shot at porting it though, let us know > > when you're done. >=20 > I'm gainfully employed by IBM (although not for FreeBSD pursuits), and ha= ve > had this on my TODO list for a while. >=20 > The licence issue is a real sticky point, especially since the GPL and BSD > licences are like oil and water. Because of the GPL licence, JFS support > can never become part of the GENERIC kernel, and any related support tools > will have to exist as separate binaries (newfs.jfs, fsck.jfs), as is > currently done with the EXT2FS filesystem. >=20 > -- > Matt Emmerton >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwVO20ACgkQ+rDjkNht5F0fugCgl29dASt76wPngq55mf3oot6C JKAAn05p9X6kWVr0xe3TNNlWPjt0vS1F =fA5I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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