Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:57:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>, jasonf@citynet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting a new filesystem to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010731115727.B80898@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:22:29AM %2B0000 References: <20010717082210.76404.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> <200107310222.TAA28694@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Tuesday, 31 July 2001 at 2:22:29 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> JFS would be a nice thing for >> mail/database/http/file-servers. I can not state "that >> filesystem is better than this". But a filesystem >> developed by a big company to use it with linux - why >> do we not port it? > > The license prevents us from using it as the boot FS, so > we might as well just use an FS we are allowed to boot > from, instead, since we have to have it around anyway. > > Note that the JFS that IBM put out for Linux is the OS/2 > JFS -- the only thing of real value it brings to the table, > IMO, is the btree directory structure, which you can put > into FFS fairly easily (less than a days work). The OS/2 JFS was the basis for the "new" JFS 2 under AIX. There would have been little point in releasing the sources for the "old" JFS, which is being phased out. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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