Intermezzo FS on FreeBSD

Andrew Reilly andrew-freebsd at areilly.bpc-users.org
Wed Jan 16 18:21:27 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:23:22AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> I've did some reading about Intermezzo and one of the things about it is
> that it's described as "working on top of a journaled file system". By
> its specification it seems it doesn't actually need a journal but a
> "file system operations stream". There's no general way of generating
> these records (AFAIK there is in DragonflyBSD) but maybe it would be
> enough to hook up like a nullfs mount.

I've just googled it, and it sounds a lot like a really good
idea.  The "but" is that it doesn't seem to have been touched
since 2002.  Is it still alive and in use?  Surely it has needed
changes since then, even if only to keep up with Linux kernel
development.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew


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