Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-10-02 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
of it. I want to make a freebsd port of JFS2. The source code is available at http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ The reasons are academic and I have no reason to suggest that people stop using ufs. So, of course support for new filesystem support is good, but my personal opinion is that JFS2 isn't

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-12 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On Fri, 09.09.2005 at 12:28:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? There has been recent work to port several of the newer Linux file systems to FreeBSD, including: What about the Google SoC project

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: On Fri, 09.09.2005 at 12:28:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? There has been recent work to port several of the newer Linux file systems to FreeBSD

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-12 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
[snip] I think this is a useful approach for occasional file access, but I think the general interest in the more interesting Linux file systems is for less than occasional use. I.e., not just migration of data from Linux to FreeBSD, but for daily use in production on high performance

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? thanks -kamal On 9/9/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 8 September 2005 at 20:41:49 +0530, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: Hello, Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? A little, but it never got

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? thanks -kamal There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're motivated only because you think others desire your

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:31:15PM +0530, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? To add to Mike's comments, if you're really keen on playing with journalling, adding journalling support to UFS2 is something that probably would be widely appreciated. AFAIK,

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 09 September 2005 16:31, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? Core doesn't decide what stuff gets committed into FreeBSD. Core doesn't control who writes things, or what they write, for FreeBSD. If you write it, and it works well enough and you

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? There has been recent work to port several of the newer Linux file systems to FreeBSD, including: - Pretty old work to get the basic JFS userland tools working (status unknown, likely very

Re: Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Sergey Babkin
From: Mike Silbersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? thanks -kamal There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're motivated only

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:28:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of Robert Watson, and lo! it spake thus: - Pretty recent work to get read-only reiserfs working (committed and in the CVS repository). Which, by the way, I just used earlier this week to pull data and configs and such off an old and

Re: Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sergey Babkin wrote: OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would be something of use to many people, I suspect. Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has journaling in it. -SB I was thinking that as I wrote it as well, I'm not sure

JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-08 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
Hello, Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd? thanks -kamal ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]