UFS2 support?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Feb 1 15:09:09 PST 2005


:On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:28:54PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
:> will there be support for UFS2 some day? That would make it easier to 
:> switch from FreeBSD-5.X to Dragonfly anytime.
:
:Once we have the infrastructure for 64 bit filesystems in the kernel,
:it should be possible to add the support for UFS2, at least for the
:filesystem itself without ACLs and snapshots.
:
:Joerg

    I am not particularly interested in supporting UFS2 myself, it has all
    the same problems that UFS has and only fixes the large filesystem size
    issue.

    I'd much prefer that we burn our cycles porting something like JFS.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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