XFS for FreeBSD, new snapshot available
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Fri Aug 19 01:55:57 GMT 2005
Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On behalf of the XFS for FreeBSD project, I would
> like to announce a new snapshot which you can download
> and try. The snapshot is available here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/
>
> NOTES:
> - works only with latest FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-6 kernels
> - read-only access to XFS partitions only
> - highly experimental and not finished yet, this is a work in progress
> - do not use for production work
>
> NEW THINGS:
> - several kernel panics fixed
> - preliminary support for reading extended attributes
> - xfsprogs in ports ( sysutils/xfsprogs ), needed for mkfs.xfs
>
> The XFS for FreeBSD project is porting the SGI XFS filesystem
> to FreeBSD, based on publically available GPL'd sources of
> SGI's XFS for Linux. The XFS for FreeBSD project is not
> affiliated with SGI, and SGI should not be contacted with
> bug reports regarding XFS for FreeBSD.
>
> Many thanks to Russell Cattelan and Alexander Kabaev for their work
> on this project.
>
> We would appreciate your feedback and bug reports.
>
Is read/write support in the plans for the future?
Eric
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