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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.near.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!db74+ From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 15:09:04 -0500 Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <8ioDtUe00iU6AX3apt@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd: 19-Nov-94 Re: ffs & sunos? by Larry McVoy@slovax.engr. > 4.4 BSD FFS is a much older and buggier version of Sun's UFS. Sun's UFS > is better quality and has a far better vnode interface. There are some > very subtle problems with BSD's vnode layer (along with the obvious > problems of VOP_STRATEGY and no VOP_GETPAGE or VOP_PUTPAGE). Sun's is > better. 2 questions then. I haven't done much in the way of hacking on file systems, so I don't know... how hard would it be to hack 44BSD FFS to be more like Sun's UFS? The other thing I've been looking at on and off is porting 44BSD NFS to SunOS, but it doesn't seem that this would be very easy. I'd like to have 44BSD NFS, but I also would like the SunOS UFS, and I need the ability to run AFS client and server software, since the machine is being used in a development environment. Has anyone else looked at porting 44BSD NFS to SunOS? Actually, I'm interested in either or both of these, but I'm not holding my breath.:-) -D