Re: Something for DragonFly?

[James Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't go so far as to say it wouldn't mesh with unix tools -- or 
that it would be baggage.  I think a better phrase would be 'unused 
potential'.


--James




Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> "Erik Paulsen Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:4011c860$0$181$415eb37d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 
>
>
> > From http://www.skyos.org/:
> >
> > We are pleased to announce that we have chosen a new file system to
> > use in SkyOS, and it will be available in SkyOS 5.0. The file system
> > that we have chosen to use is the OpenBFS, made available under the
> > MIT license by the OpenBeOS project. We have chosen this excellent
>
>
> It's interesting, though I'd say, having used BeOS and therefore BFS for
> a few years, you'd want to pick this filesystem clone because of the
> attribute support, not because of journaling.  File attributes was
> really neat, and gave the filesystem database-like capabilities, but
> it's not something that will mesh easily with 99% of the unixy tools out
> there, so it almost could be considered "baggage".