Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:35:58 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> Subject: Re: MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions Message-ID: <61.60.17943.E87BFEF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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> You can not only run Linux on XFS (which I do) but it is still likely > the most reliable and consistently performant of the filesystems > available in Linux because of its origin and its maturity. XFS did > not originate in Linux (it originated in SGI's Irix) so it should not > surprise that Linux core developers are proponents of filesystems > originally developed under Linux. > Regardless, a key value of *BSD supporting non-native filesystems is > in order to be able to access filesystems created on other OSs. > XFS is a major filesystem so hopefully someone will volunteer to > support it. > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn I remember starting threads, many months ago, both on FreeBSD and NetBSD lists about lingua franca file system for sharing data between OSes. I can see why NTFS support is important, due to its prevalence. But I believe very few people would have any use for HPFS access from BSD, and it would be practically impossible to find testers. Tom
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