20TB Storage System (fsck????)

[Paul Saab]

David Schultz (das at FreeBSD.ORG) wrote:
> > >From my brief research on the subject, the FreeBSD community 
> > has been highly resistant to supporting third party filesystems 
> > precisely because nobody with such needs as yours has ever 
> > contributed the code necessary to make third party filesystem 
> > support a reality.  The response is usually something like "if you 
> > want it, go program it and submit it to a committer for review," 
> > which is really the only reasonable response that can be made 
> > given FreeBSD's goals.
> 
> There's probably only a handful of committers who have access to
> the quantities of storage that would make this kind of filesystem
> development interesting.  Meanwhile, UFS2 is perfectly adequate
> for most systems.  I would imagine that an interested company
> would have to step forward and fund this sort of work.  Moreover,
> there are licensing issues that would have to be considered to do
> a port of an existing filesystem...

If people are wanting to work on filesystems > 2TB, committers who want
access to tank.freebsd.org can request it.  The machine has 3TB of disk
space available.