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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LOG und UNION Date: 16 Dec 1995 04:42:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4atin9$hv5@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4arc0v$qsp@loch.in-brb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4arc0v$qsp@loch.in-brb.de>, Lars Hentschke <nuggets> wrote: >Is anybody working on the fameous LOG-Filesystem or the amazing >UNION-Filesystem? Both John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> and Justin Gibbs <gibbs@freebsd.org> have planned to work on these for quite some time, and Justin even did a fair bit of LOGFS research for his university degree. Unfortunately, time is always a precious commodity with those two and other issues, like the VM system and the Adaptec SCSI driver, have had them both busy full-time for awhile. I'm sure if there are some filesystem experts out there who really wanted to pitch in and help, neither would turn down such offers. Apparently, unionfs requires more than just a few fixes - it was fundamentally mis-architected in Lite and in need of a fair bit of work, especially in light of some other FreeBSD kernel enhancements. >Does nobody else need these very useful things? Quite the contrary! There are simply only so many hours in the day. :-( Jordan