Re: UFS2 with SAN

Robert Watson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Robert Watson wrote:

>> I'm already funded and can work full time on this, but a FreeBSD hacker 
>> would help a lot.  Any volunteers?
>
> I'm not the right person to talk to you about FreeBSD VFS/buffering, but I'm 
> very interested in seeing support for Arla improve for recent FreeBSD 
> versions.  In particular, I think it would be very helpful it it worked on 
> FreeBSD 7-CURRENT, which would facilitate merging nnpfs into CVS.  This 
> might help solve the "forever playing catchup" problem that Arla seems 
> constantly to experience with FreeBSD, in which nnpfs (previously xfs) gets 
> left behind and works only on stale FreeBSD versions.  In any recent FreeBSD 
> kernel, nnpfs will need to run as an MPSAFE file system, however.

FYI to all as a follow-up on this thread: I've set Tomas up with an account on 
the FreeBSD Perforce server as a place to do the work-in-progress, which 
should improve exposure in (and opportunity for collaboration with) the 
FreeBSD developer community, as well as making it easier to track the 
7-CURRENT mainline.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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