From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 27 11:45:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F3237B71A; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25104; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:38:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA_vaWWW; Tue Feb 27 12:38:38 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29013; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:44:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102271944.MAA29013@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:44:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), sam@errno.com (Sam Leffler), zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu (Zhiui Zhang), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Feb 27, 2001 09:46:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Great, the most important part of my system has to be on some > > other FS type because otherwise I can't boot. > > > > I would prefer to have my boot loader, kernel, and modules live > > on the safest FS available to me. If that's not XFS, why use > > it? If it is XFS, then why use something else, except for the > > license making me? > > Terry, if it really matters that XFS root filesystems are bootable, then > someone will write an XFS reader module for libstand. Personally, I don't > think it will ever matter that much. Me neither; as long as the pain threshold is so high, XFS will not be ported by those with the ability, nor used by the majority of those without. PS: This is not the "XFS-advocacy" list. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message