Anyone have a writeup of this? ISTR changes from 7 to 8 for forced unmount, not sure what else there was.
There have been some independently developed filesystems for Solaris (I'm thinking in particular of FiST (www.filesystems.org)) that are more or less open source but where the Solaris port wasn't maintained because the developer hadn't had continuous access to Solaris source, and the filesystem interface on Solaris has historically been undocumented (and thus one of the few places that really had a lot of leeway for making changes; thus the proliferation of special purpose filesystems like objfs and so on). Given OpenSolaris, it seems there's little excuse for not documenting the interface, to include its history. Disclaimers that it is uncommitted and subject to revision are fine, but something (other than suggestions to just whip up something that pretends to be an NFS server) is clearly needed, IMO. Also, there shouldn't be any need to be shy about providing info on future changes to the interface, once they've been decided on. That would give the independent developers maximum lead time to update their code. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ ufs-discuss mailing list [email protected]
