David Schultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >From my brief research on the subject, the FreeBSD community > > has been highly resistant to supporting third party filesystems > > precisely because nobody with such needs as yours has ever > > contributed the code necessary to make third party filesystem > > support a reality. The response is usually something like "if you > > want it, go program it and submit it to a committer for review," > > which is really the only reasonable response that can be made > > given FreeBSD's goals. > > There's probably only a handful of committers who have access to > the quantities of storage that would make this kind of filesystem > development interesting. Meanwhile, UFS2 is perfectly adequate > for most systems. I would imagine that an interested company > would have to step forward and fund this sort of work. Moreover, > there are licensing issues that would have to be considered to do > a port of an existing filesystem...
If people are wanting to work on filesystems > 2TB, committers who want access to tank.freebsd.org can request it. The machine has 3TB of disk space available. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
