Re: UFS2 (was Re: Junior kernel hacking)

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Backporting snapshots would also be nice.
:
:			-Kip
:
:On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
:
:> Depending on your degree of comfort working on filesystem code, a good
:> project is backporting the UFS2 size extensions.
:>
:> 							Jeffrey
:>

    Porting UFS2 wouldn't be too hard.  Porting snapshots, which is a 
    function of softupdates, would be very difficult and is probably not
    worth doing at this time.

    The main thing we need to do is to move the entire I/O path to a flat
    64 bit byte space.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>