Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:56:10 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS for FreeBSD, new snapshot available Message-ID: <43053C3A.2090500@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050819015327.GA7627@crodrigues.org> References: <20050819015327.GA7627@crodrigues.org>
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Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > On behalf of the XFS for FreeBSD project, I would > like to announce a new snapshot which you can download > and try. The snapshot is available here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/ > > NOTES: > - works only with latest FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-6 kernels > - read-only access to XFS partitions only > - highly experimental and not finished yet, this is a work in progress > - do not use for production work > > NEW THINGS: > - several kernel panics fixed > - preliminary support for reading extended attributes > - xfsprogs in ports ( sysutils/xfsprogs ), needed for mkfs.xfs > > The XFS for FreeBSD project is porting the SGI XFS filesystem > to FreeBSD, based on publically available GPL'd sources of > SGI's XFS for Linux. The XFS for FreeBSD project is not > affiliated with SGI, and SGI should not be contacted with > bug reports regarding XFS for FreeBSD. > > Many thanks to Russell Cattelan and Alexander Kabaev for their work > on this project. > > We would appreciate your feedback and bug reports. > Is read/write support in the plans for the future? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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