Subject: Re: News & Installation ideas
To: Michael Goetze <mgoetze5@yahoo.com>
From: Ian Cooper <ian@WPI.EDU>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 10/05/2001 11:19:30
I think that it would be very worthwhile to port XFS to NetBSD.  Besides
for compatibility purposes, isn't XFS a pretty well-engineered filesystem?
Something worth offering as an alternative to FFS or UFS?  XFS is
journaled (like reiserfs or ext3), right?

Just a thought.

> > > So ARCS can't boot FFS? How about porting XFS to NetBSD? Couldn't
> > > be that hard (tm). That would make life... erm... this thing much
> > > easier.
> >
> > ... of course you're welcome to help out! When are you done?
> > :)
>
> IIRC, the Linux port took 9 months... and there were SGI engineers
> working on that project... ;-)
> Of course, it would be easier to redo, now that the Linux code is
> available.
>
> - Michael
>
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Ian Cooper
ian@wpi.edu