Subject: Re: Summer Of Code - Filesystem What do you think ?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Jonathan Buschmann <jonthn@agmact.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/09/2005 14:12:20
Hubert Feyrer a écrit :

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Peter Bex wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I already signed up for the HFS+ 
>> project.
>
>
> The rules is that more than one person can apply for a project, and 
> wile not team work is allowed, they can both work on it (if accepted!) 
> concurrently, making some competition.
>
I'm not sure if two persons can develop in parallel, anyway if he wants 
to work on HFS+ i will let it do.

>> I had some discussion with jmmv about it, and he is of the opinion that
>> the documentation on JFS is lacking detail.  You can't seriously 
>> implement
>> it with the documentation from its website.  Same goes for XFS.
>>
>> ReiserFS apparently has serious issues s well.  There is no decent
>> documentation and there are stability problems with the Linux 
>> implementation,
>> so porting it is not advisable.
>
>
> You can use the existing code as documentation.
>
So if Peter wants to work with HFS+ i will try to work on JFS if that 
doesn't bother anyone.

Regards,

       Jonathan