Manuel Bouyer asked:
>On May 20, Oleg Polyanski wrote
>> hello,
>> 
>> 	good news are here. the story
>> 
>> 	http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,36807,00.html
>> 
>> 	tells that SGI will release the source code of their XFS. it
>> lacks some features but is able to handle with files of very big size,
>> has b-tree layout on the media and, the most important, it is journaling
>> file system. if the license is acceptable I guess it will quite easy
>> to port XFS into NetBSD.
>
>How is it different from our LFS ?

Well, if they released the DMAPI version it would be quite different in that
respect. Does LFS support extended file attributes? 

More interesting would be their release of xvm (their volume manager).

Paul