Also NetBSD is weak on its flash support.  Embedded systems need file
systems that can tolerate being power off without warning and to have a file
system supporting compression.

Kyle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Black Hacker [mailto:blackye@break.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:37 AM
> To: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: JFS
> 
> 
> On Thursday, Feb 20, 2003, at 11:50 Europe/Rome, Benedikt 
> Meurer wrote:
> > Why add any further filesystems to NetBSD? We have FFS and 
> LFS (well, 
> > some-
> > day we'll have it :-) and we support E2FS, MSDOSFS and some 
> other, so
> > why add another (not well-tested) filesystem?
> 
> - Snapshotting
> - Journaling/fastrecovery
> - Dynamic partition resizing
> - Dynamic slice addition/removal/clustering
> - ACLs and MAC file-access-policy
> - Metadata support
> 
> Enough ?
> 
> The way could be JFS, XFS or AdvFS. Personally I think that
> reiser is far from beeing mature (the sole fact that creating a
>  >2GB single file on a ReiserFS initialized as 32bits will make
> you loos the entire partition worries me more than a bit...).
> 
> AdvFS and XFS probably have licensing problems, JFS
> is likely to be easier to get into a BSD license.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> A.
>