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authorjdolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>2016-09-16 15:02:23 +0000
committerjdolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>2016-09-16 15:02:23 +0000
commitd2de90c575ba04ca842bfc33f2eefb19d8615fc0 (patch)
treed7284d317195835b0d47aad5ca68cd471c1a2158
parentf2b65720f5e3972d0f048c894b6847636452ab76 (diff)
volunteer for the ext3/ext4 also
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-$NetBSD: storage,v 1.16 2016/09/16 14:55:28 jdolecek Exp $
+$NetBSD: storage,v 1.17 2016/09/16 15:02:23 jdolecek Exp $
NetBSD Storage Roadmap
======================
@@ -320,10 +320,15 @@ or less work than doing an implementation.
Note however that implementing ext3 has already defeated several
people; this is a harder project than it looks.
- - As of May 2016 there is a GSoC project to implement read-only ext4
- support, but (it not being summer yet) no particular progress.
+ - GSoc 2016 brought support for extents, and also ro support for dir
+ hashes; jdolecek also implemented several frequently used ext4 features
+ so most contemporary ext filesystems should be possible to mount
+ read-write
+ - still need rw dir_nhash and xattr (semi-easy), and eventually journalling
+ (hard)
- There is no clear timeframe or release target.
- - Contact ?? for further information.
+ - jdolecek is working on improving ext3/ext4 support (particularily
+ journalling)
14. Port hammer from Dragonfly