On Monday, 17 December 2001 at 22:50:45 -0000, Dave Reyenga wrote: > How about writing a new filesystem based on UFS?
If it's based on UFS, it's not a new file system. > This would save all of the hassle that JFS would bring: licensing, > porting time, etc. There are no hassles with licensing. You'd be balancing porting time against writing time. Guess which would take longer. > What I'm thinking is a filesystem that takes the current UFS and > improves upon it. It could support larger partitions, That's relatively trivial. The big issue is compatibility. > more partitions in a slice, That's relatively trivial. The big issue is compatibility. > and perhaps a "Journal" partition (like the current "swap" > partition) Well, I don't think the journal would be like swap. > among other new features. That's pretty much what IBM did. They called the result JFS. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
