UFS2 (was Re: Junior kernel hacking)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Jan 14 01:32:01 PST 2004
: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
:>
Porting UFS2 wouldn't be too hard. Porting snapshots, which is a
function of softupdates, would be very difficult and is probably not
worth doing at this time.
The main thing we need to do is to move the entire I/O path to a flat
64 bit byte space.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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