xfs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OT] XFS and FreeBSD?

To: Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OT] XFS and FreeBSD?
From: cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:52:50 -0500
Cc: Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107121718480.376-100000@kalapati.leathercollection.local>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope this does not cause any major trouble. I am wondering if there is
> any effort to get XFS working on FreeBSD

Yes but it's all part time effort right now. More volunteers welcome.
Actually the NT port using the FreeBSD 2.5 vfs/vnode interface
is mounting and making directories.


> complete with EAs and ACLs.

This part will probably be quite a way out.

> I do
> not know what the state of the filesystem support of FreeBSD is, but the
> last I've read looks like it's still UFS with soft updates. I also
> personally wonder why SGI decided to port XFS to Linux and not to the
> BSDs. I have never used any BSD (I use Linux actually) but this just makes
> me curious. I've heard the BSDs are also very good, but maybe someone can
> enlighten me off-list about this.
>
> Thanks in advance everyone!
>
>  --> Jijo
>
> --
> Federico Sevilla III  :: jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc.


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>