Will XFS be adopted

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:04:41AM -0500, Dan wrote:
> James R. Van Artsdalen(james-freebsd-fs2 at jrv.org)@2008.11.16 20:35:37 -0600:
> > ZFS has limitations.
> > 
> > It is not appropriate for "appliance" applications such as the Soekris
> > boxes does due to memory consumption.
> YES! In my opinion it's not even appropriate for a machine with 2GB of
> RAM. Why waste so much RAM on an FS? Does anyone know? Or is this some
> sort of conspiracy to sell more bgger boxes. It's Sun, afterall....
> 
> > BTRFS will be another filesystem to watch.  Perhaps foreign filesystems
> > could be supported out of ports.  But the fundamental limitation, as was
> > said, is that someone has to care enough to do the port.
> 
> What kinda bugs me is why FreeBSD hasn't adopted a nice journaling FS
> until now. Look at Linux - Reiser, EXT3 and XFS/JFS have been in it for
> years. What gives with FreeBSD?

Someone needs to actually write one.  We don't have all that many file system
experts and even a pretty basic file system is a huge undertaking.

-- Brooks
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