Re: UFS2 support?

[Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:28:54PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> :> will there be support for UFS2 some day? That would make it easier to 
> :> switch from FreeBSD-5.X to Dragonfly anytime.
> :
> :Once we have the infrastructure for 64 bit filesystems in the kernel,
> :it should be possible to add the support for UFS2, at least for the
> :filesystem itself without ACLs and snapshots.
> :
> :Joerg
>
>     I am not particularly interested in supporting UFS2 myself, it has all
>     the same problems that UFS has and only fixes the large filesystem size
>     issue.
>
>     I'd much prefer that we burn our cycles porting something like JFS.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Are you refering to the ibm JFS, which is GPLed?  Or are
you talking in about a journalling filesystem in general?

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jfs/home.html


					Max