[haiku-development] Re: Contribute to "Create an XFS file system driver"
- From: Tony Clifton <professortonyclifton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:06:18 -0800
Sachet,
I apologize for assuming your motives were sane.
On 11/9/14, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Please find my response inline.
>
>>>
>>> I'd very much welcome an XFS port to Haiku!
>>> I don't see much issues in the design, as our native file system BFS is
>>> actually heavily inspired by XFS (its creator used to work on XFS for a
>>> while).
>>>
>
> Alex, thank you for giving the "go-ahead" on this.
>
> Yes, the BFS design matches the XFS in many ways as in B+Tree
> implementation of meta-data handling, extended attributes,
> journalizing etc but the issues I foresee in porting XFS on Haiku are
> -
>
> 1) Different VFS interface between Haiku and Linux- In Linux, more
> generic operations are performed by VFS on filesystem's behalf as
> compared to that in Haiku so XFS on Haiku will have to take care of
> many other things.
>
> 2) Direct I/O implementation - I have no idea as of now how this is
> implemented in Haiku.
>
>>
>>
>> Axel didn't mention that you wouldn't be able to install Haiku onto an
>> XFS
>> partition.
>>
>
> Tony, since Haiku doesn't support XFS why would it be installed on XFS
> partition. My initial approach would be to provide read-only support
> for XFS on Haiku.
>
> Regards,
> Saket Sinha
>
>
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