On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
On Fri, 09.09.2005 at 12:28:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
Has there been any work on porting JFS2 onto Freebsd?
There has been recent work to port several of the newer Linux file systems to
FreeBSD,
including:
What about the Google SoC project of porting FUSE to FreeBSD? I think
this could be the next best thing with regard to supporting non-BSD
filesystems.
Iff the user-space FS implementations of FUSE are portable, this would
bring support of numerous FS to FreeBSD: SMB via FUSE, SSHFS,
gphoto2-fuse-fs (I really could use this one), NTFS (with read/write
support) and others.
Now some "Linux guy" could re-implement ext3fs in FUSE and some other
hacker could do a UFS/UFS2 port and then Linux and FreeBSD would have
better implementations of the other's FS.
No, I'm not volunteering, and since I don't know much about porting FS
anyway, this all might be a dream. But my understanding of FUSE is that
this should be possible.
I think this is a useful approach for occasional file access, but I think
the general interest in the more interesting Linux file systems is for
less than occasional use. I.e., not just migration of data from Linux to
FreeBSD, but for daily use in production on high performance systems.
Robert N M Watson
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