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Re: Regarding work in GNU Kernel Hurd
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Neal H Walfield |
Subject: |
Re: Regarding work in GNU Kernel Hurd |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:13:01 +0200 |
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> > I am very much interested in picking atleast one of the following ....
> >
> > I. Writing a file system for /tmp to use Virtual memory instead of
> > disk.
>
> Something similar has already been attempted, try looking for memfs
> in the mailing list archives (both bug-hurd and debian-hurd).
Actually, we already have tmpfs. Look in hurd/tmpfs.
> > II. Implementing different file system support for Hurd. Please let
> > me know, what all file systems work is still to be started?
> Right now most popular filesystems are supported (possibly with bugs).
> The ones that are missing are the new journaling filesystems that have
> started kreeping up everywhere like xfs, jfs, ext3, reiserfs. If you
> feel up to the taks of implementing them, go right ahead.
There is also the rewrite of ext2fs to not mmap the contents of the
disk. I think that this is more important than the journalling
filesystems.
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