Kalev Lember wrote: > Good job! Thanks a lot :) > One of the things I have missed in FreeBSD is a good journaling > filesystem. This is one of the places where Linux beats BSD: Linux > supports far more filesystems that the BSDs do. This was the first reason why I started this port: after my Linux box was broken (hardware issue), I couldn't read any of its partitions from the FreeBSD box. Supporting multiple file-systems is therefore useful in such cases. The downside of this is that it consumes a lot of time to support every file-systems; time that could be used on just one. > Writing a journaling filesystem from scratch is not a trivial thing to > do, however. Maybe we should consider using ReiserFS or some other > journaling one as FreeBSD's primary filesystem now that the 6-current is > branched? > > One of the issues with ReiserFS is the licence of course. If ReiserFS should be integrated to FreeBSD, a rewrite would be a good thing, because this first port fits the Linux VFS "phylosophy" and doesn't take advantage of FreeBSD's one. If 6-CURRENT brings a new VFS, it could be the occasion to do it. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron http://www.dumbbell-fr.net/
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