On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:04 -0700, Brian Gupta wrote:
> Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are 
> times when other filesystem types are needed.
> 
> In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start 
> supporting additional file systems. Foe example:
> - jffs2/squashfs
> - FAT16/FAT32

This is known as pcfs. Its supported by Solaris now.

> - NTFS
> - ext3

Belenix has packages for these. When FUSE is ready we can easily port
existing FUSE drivers for these.
(http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/)

> - HFS+
> - XFS
> - JFS

These are currently not supported.

It looks like a new filesystems community may be set up which will
encompass all the filesystem development efforts (UFS, ZFS, FUSE, etc
will exist as projects in this community).
See more info about that here: 
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000289.html

-Mark

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> Thanks,
> Brian
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