On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Frank Hofmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose a project for OpenSolaris that'd put development on
> the PCFS filesystem driver and the associated utilities "out" onto
> OpenSolaris.org. A discussion mailing list, a wiki and a Mercurial
> repository for it.
>
> PCFS is a bit like the "ugly duckling" in Solaris Filesystems. There's the
> potential to make it evolve into a swan if we can solve issues it has:
>
> - performance is abysmal
> - on large filesystems, it's a memory hog
> - performance is abysmal
> - not optimized for FAT32, not even "auto-work" mkfs on disks
> - performance is abysmal
> - still no codepage / international character set support
> - performance is abysmal
> - compatibility with some media is bad (2kB secsize doesn't work)
> - performance is abysmal
> - carries a lot of 20+ year old cruft
> - ah, yeah, and did I say performance is abysmal ?
>
> There are already people from the community who have contributed to PCFS
> and I want to explicitly express my thanks for that. But I also want
> to go a step further, and get our development workspace out, so that I
> don't have to say "believe me we're doing work on it", but so that
> everyone can see the changes that are upcoming, comment on them, suggest
> improvements, add own code, and of course try it out sooner.
>
> Thoughts/suggestions/<gasp>seconds ?
+1
But you probably need to mention how you feel about "performance" :)
A bizarre sense of humor is the sign of a great developer mindset IMHO.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
