Subject: ufs/ffs logging [Was: Re: Google Summer of Code project ideas]
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Volker A. Brandt <vab@bb-c.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/21/2006 18:03:47
> *  Journaling for FFS  -- Solaris UFS (the same filesystem we call FFS)
>    provides for a journaling filesystem with snapshots. Extend FFS/FFS2
>    similarly; it may even be possible to use a compatible on-disk
>    format.

I find this a very interesting idea.  Has anyone looked at the
feasibility of adapting the OpenSolaris ufs code?  Is this possible
per the Sun license?

The next step of course would be to support zfs... that would be an
awesome SoC project! :-)


Regards -- Volker
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