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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!wdcpop.dra.net!news.dra.com!news.visi.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a BSD for me? Date: 14 Apr 1997 14:14:01 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5ite39$icq@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <334499cf.10431258@agate> <33450A8A.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2975 "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > It'd be nice to do a port for FreeBSD :-). If not, then you might > want to talk to the NetBSD or OpenBSD crews. But also port their JFS and Logical Volume Manager then. :-) Seriously, the AIX on the RS/6k machine wasn't exactly the worst Unix i've seen so far, despite of its idiosyncracies maintenance-wise. The uptime of our old IBM Model 320 usually serves as a track record for the stability of our local power supply. :) After i had to give training courses for the Logical Volume Manager of AIX (good piece of work) and DEC Unix (not quite as good), i'm now half-seriously thinking about an LVM management layer for FreeBSD. Given that there's already ccd, this shouldn't be too hard to add. Still, the point remains that the classic UFS ain't expandable, but i think expansion in slices of the already existing cylinder groups should not be too difficult either, and would be a starting point. For FreeBSD, a cylinder group should usually translate to 4096 sectors times 16 cylinders, i.e. 32 MB, so you could extend an existing UFS in units of 32 MB. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j