Re: FENRIS (nwfs) 1.4.2 Source Code Available,t

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:48:14 +0100 (BST)

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> Jeff, if your filesystem is supposed to work with 2.0 you are in for a
> *BIG* work when you will port it to 2.2. Sorry, but It's Your Problem(tm).
> VFS changed big way and keeping the same codebase is next to impossible.
> Exactly because 2.0 was much dumber. If your design decisions are based on
> 2.0 - too bad, the thing will suck badly.

I don't think so. The FENRIS code has aliases to deal with, which is unpleasant
with the dcache, but the rest is very very modular. Jeff did his homework

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