ok... I think I'll follow your recommendation Ted. I'll work on adding ext3fs support.
Thanks to all of you guys for your advice. Regards. Daniel. On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011, joshua stein wrote: >>> ok, so... how can do it in such a way it can go into the tree? should >>> I re-implement JFS? >> >> maybe look into SU+J? >> >> http://www.mckusick.com/BSDCan/bsdcan2010.pdf >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NuhRkiInvA >> >> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/22716.html > > I think they maybe have the bugs out, but they were still fixing some > serious issues very recently, and it took us years to get the existing > softdep code stabilized. I don't think anybody is going to want to make > changes like this. Potential porters should very seriously consider the > advice that they never would have done softdep journaling if they'd > known how hard it would be. > > If you need journaling, adding ext3fs support to ext2fs would be > reasonable. First, we already have the code for the filesystem, so > you're not starting from scratch. Second, nobody uses that code, so if > you screw it up you won't hurt people as badly.
