Porting from linux to FreeBSD
Deepak Naidu
deepak_nai at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 8 08:34:05 PDT 2005
Thanx for the detailed info. hope it comes soon.
--- Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
> Deepak Naidu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am thinking of porting my mailserver from
> fedora
> > 2.6 to freebsd 5.4. In this regards i have a
> question
> > regarding chosing the stable and fast filesystem.
> >
> > I used reiserfs in fedora due to its faster
> input &
> > output operation with file size of 1-5 Mb. Is
> UFS2
> > stable and fast(does it journalize). It seems to
> be
> > slow when untaring a file.
> >
> > I am thing about XFS, how do i implement it in
> FreeBSD
> > 5.4 in kernel, how do i get the XFS option during
> > installation(I know for that i have to make own
> CD,
> > even then).
> >
> >
> > What are my options regarding file syetm in
> FreeBSD
> > 5.4 considering mailing server performance.
>
> UFS2 is actually a pretty fast filesystem for most
> cases. UFS2 does not
> currently support journaling, however some work is
> underway by Scott
> Long to implement this. UFS2 has soft-updates,
> which keeps meta-data
> consistant in case of system failure (reboots,etc),
> but does not avoid
> an fsck. The 5.x series and above has support for
> background fsck,
> which allows you to mount the filesystem and begin
> using it, while
> background fsck does the checking live.
>
> There are read-only ports of reiserfs and xfs
> available for 6.0- and
> 7.0. The reiserfs code is in the src tree, and the
> xfs code can be
> found here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/
>
> I'm sure Craig and Alexander would enjoy the help
> with the porting of
> XFS. I'm unsure of the status of reiserfs. Porting
> XFS to FreeBSD
> (full support) would be awesome!
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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> Centaur Technology
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> doesn't.
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