Re: UFS2 (was Re: Junior kernel hacking)

[Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:01:05 -0500, David Rhodus wrote:

> I'm not sure we want to do snapshots inside the filesystem the way
> FreeBSD did them by modifying the UFS/FFS layer. With the current VFS
> messaging work being done we'll be abel perform the domain boundary at
> the messaging line. We en-term will take each filesystem into a single
> thread. Then taking all the VOP's and queueing them onto a single thread
> representing the filesystem. Using the messaging infrastructure as the
> boundary will enable use to queue all incoming messages and wait for the
> undergoing I/O to finish.
> 
> Since that is actually something with a dependancy that is not yet
> complete then another way to look at achieving what I'm sure your really
> going for is avoiding having to fsck on an unclean shutdown. I estimate
> with two or three complete 16 hour days of work one could integrate the
> journaling code from Apple. It has been nicely self-contained for us.
> You can download the files here...
> http://machdep.com/drhodus/vfs_journal.c
> http://machdep.com/drhodus/vfs_journal.h

Is it allow for us to add the stuff that is in APSL license in the BSD? I
didn't read APSL license that much, so I don't really know much about it.
:-)

Cheers,
Mezz

> -DR
> 
> On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Kip Macy wrote:
> 
>> Backporting snapshots would also be nice.
>>
>> 			-Kip
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
>>
>>> Depending on your degree of comfort working on filesystem code, a good
>>> project is backporting the UFS2 size extensions.
>>>
>>> 							Jeffrey


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