Re: Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-03 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... > > It may still be worth trying. I only started looking at `umem' from > sourceforge this week, but if there is more interest in ptmalloc, > maybe it is better if I focused on why ptmalloc fails to work on > FreeBSD. > FWIW, I just sub

Re: Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-02 16:44, Jason Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> IMHO, and purely as constructive criticism, Jason's article >> would've been much more interesting if he had tested ptmalloc (in >> the ports tree) and we had had libumem. > > Yes, that would have been nice, bu

Re: Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-02 Thread Jason Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, and purely as constructive criticism, Jason's article would've been much more interesting if he had tested ptmalloc (in the ports tree) and we had had libumem. Yes, that would have been nice, but when I tried to use ptmalloc, it failed to work correctly. I don't

Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On 2006-06-01 03:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FWIW, I'd also like to see libumem ported. > > Me too. > > I have been toying with the idea of consulting Jason Evans about > this for a while now. If something like this starts, are you >

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread Joseph Scott
On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: Agreed it would be. I'd love to see it (I'm an advocate for as many filesystems available as possible actually). So, the real question is, who's going to volunteer to start actually porting it?

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: Agreed it would be. I'd love to see it (I'm an advocate for as many filesystems available as possible actually). So, the real question is, who's going to volunteer to start actually porting it? People interested in volunteering can expect lots of h

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-01 03:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FWIW, I'd also like to see libumem ported. Me too. I have been toying with the idea of consulting Jason Evans about this for a while now. If something like this starts, are you willing to help with the port? ___

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread Eric Anderson
Iantcho Vassilev wrote: On 6/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for > certain.You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though, > unless you are talk

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
On 6/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for > certain.You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though, > unless you are talking about read-only suppo

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for > certain.You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though, > unless you are talking about read-only support for it. I don't know > much about licensing stuff.

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... > > > ZFS surely is cool, but I'm not sure how much it benefits FreeBSD > compared to something like journaling, or adding features to our > existing filesystem, or even write support for one of the already ported > read-only filesystems

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread Eric Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: ... ZFS surely is cool, but I'm not sure how much it benefits FreeBSD compared to something like journaling, or adding features to our existing filesystem, or even write support for one of the already ported read-on

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; --- Michael Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: (I forgot to mention Apple is interested in it too) > Since this is a project that would benefit just about anyone using > FreeBSD, it would be good to see a project like this get funding or do a > fund raise. > As a summer of code pro

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread Eric Anderson
Michael Vince wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello; DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in FreeBSD too, but AFAICT no one has started. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ cheers, Pedro. --- Since this is a pro

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Vince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello; DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in FreeBSD too, but AFAICT no one has started. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ cheers, Pedro. --- Since this is a project that would benefit

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-23 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in FreeBSD too, but AFAICT no one has started. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ cheers, Pedro. --- Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Eng. University of Pittsburgh

Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-23 Thread Kim Shrier
Is there a port already in progress? If so, who would I contact to see if I could help. If not, is there any interest (besides myself) in having ZFS ported? Thanks, Kim -- Kim Shrier - principal, Shrier and Deihl - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Remote Unix Network Admin, Security, Internet Soft