Re: Journaled FS

Florian Lohoff (flo@quit.mediaways.net)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:49:38 +0200


On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:01:37PM -0400, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> > It seems like an oportune time to ask if anyone has been working on a
> > journaled FS for Linux.
>
> I'm working on a design for a log-structured FS with things like high
> availability and dynamic volumes (i.e., add/remove disks on the fly)
> in mind. Current working-name is "XLFS", likely to change regularly
> until I turn an alpha version loose on the list ;-)
>
> There's a project called "dtfs" which is a log-structured system that
> borrows heavily from ext2. The author has a good number of white
> papers spread around the site describing design decisions, goals, etc:
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/czezatke/lfs.html
>
> Another LFS project for Linux, including links to lots of the
> "seminal" papers and documentation on LFS's:
> http://collective.cpoint.net/lfs/

But did anyone of those think on resizing in design stage ?
We do have a working LVM (Logical Volume Manager) which may
resize "Logical" block device on-the-fly ... so we only
need a filesystem to do so ...

Flo

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