From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 12 11:42:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16360 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel7.mindspring.com (camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16171 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpneal@pobox.com) Received: from kpneal.users.mindspring.com (user-38ld8pl.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.163.53]) by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA24137; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980212194051.00a60ee0@mail.mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mail.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:51 -0500 To: Marca Registrada From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux Cc: hackers list FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:39 PM 2/12/98 -0500, Marca Registrada wrote: > From the latest I heard on the Coda lists, Linus is very against this >becuase he feels it ruins the consistency of the FS interface. This of >course can change at any moment. The current proposal is to make an >filesystem where inodes can be accessed directly as files.. ie: > >fopen("/mnt/__inode_#12345#","r"); > or something similar looking to that. It actually doesn't sound like a >monster to implement at all. And as a separate filesystem solves many of >the fsck problems Coda currently has. Sorry, I'm out of touch. Why wouldn't Coda work in FreeBSD as a fs layer sitting above ffs (or whatever)? Why must Coda have access to the raw inodes? And what fsck problems does Coda currently have? Has this even been discussed anywhere? -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message