From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 31 13:55:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from email.spcgroup.nl (email.spcgroup.nl [212.206.124.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F18615003 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwinm@email.spcgroup.nl) Received: from localhost (edwinm@localhost) by email.spcgroup.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25693; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:54:50 +0100 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:54:50 +0100 (CET) From: Edwin Mons To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br Subject: Re: JFS In-Reply-To: <200001312143.OAA20171@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > I do know. The main reason why LFS was never updated isn't that it > > was made obsolete by softupdates, as claimed above, but that it was > > made obsolete by JFS. Why work on LFS if it is not up to a JFS? > > Unfortunately, the people who have to suffer enourmous waits after > > crashes usually have way more to do, even if they have the skills to > > fix LFS. > > To shove this discussion a bit sideways, SGI announced a while back > that they were going to release the source code to their Journaled > File System. Does anyone here know that status of that? Wouldn't > that be the perfect starting place for a FreeBSD JFS? Do we know > what their license will look like? It's not released yet, but there are some code-fragments released to public already. As far as I know, it will be released under the GPL. It's named XFS, and you can find information here: http://http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs Regards, Intosi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message