Re: UFS2 with SAN
Robert Watson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"