Porting from linux to FreeBSD

[Deepak Naidu]

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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> Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator      
>  Centaur Technology
> Anything that works is better than anything that
> doesn't.
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