Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:03:29AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote: >> i guess the freebsd-fs_at_ guys know about these problems but don't have >> the time to deal with it. most of them are probably working on zfs. > > AFAIK there are only a handful of people working on ZFS. > > We certainly need more people willing to work on filesystems code. In > general it does have a large learning curve, so it's not as attractive > as some of the other areas. That's probably why, as the kernel has > undergone radical changes (e.g. for SMP) over time, that some of the > fs code has not kept up. Is there material, apart from the code, explaining the concepts behind the FreeBSD file system code? File systems are an interesting topic for anyone who likes to get into low level stuff. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 12:53:05 UTC
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