From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 01:55:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A51516A41F; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:55:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88B843D45; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:55:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7J1trnm048395; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:55:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43053C3A.2090500@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:56:10 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues References: <20050819015327.GA7627@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <20050819015327.GA7627@crodrigues.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1034/Thu Aug 18 15:07:58 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS for FreeBSD, new snapshot available X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:55:57 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------