SVR4 emulation

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Jun 1 10:44:38 PDT 2005


On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:37:33AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     My personal feeling is that if we want 64 bit block support we need to
>     make a repository copy of the UFS code and call it something else,
>     like 'ufs64' or something (ufs2 ?), rather then trying to integrate the
>     support into the existing UFS filesystem.

The biggest problem is that the current UFS code doesn't cleanly distinguish
between system types and on-disk representation. It's mostly a question of
hunting through all the structure definitions and fix them :)

Joerg





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