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Users and developers of the Hurd are in for a Christmas treat. The Hurd can now read JFS partitions. The current support is still limited, though. It has problems with permissions, special files; and the implementation is still sloppy, according to the information in the project's homepage.
From: Sajith T S To: Free Software User Group - Kochi Subject: [fsug-kochi-discuss] JFS translator for the Hurd Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:36:10 +0530 Hello, Any Hurd users around? Christmas gift for you! Here's a JFS translator for the Hurd - the "first industrial-strength journaling filesystem for the Hurd" :^) http://www.symonds.net/~sajith/hurd/ It's a readonly translator, so no journaling for now :-) I don't have access to a recent Hurd release, so I'm not sure if it'd work or even compile on them. Mine is installed from old, pre-libio Debian G1 CDs. More on JFS here: http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/ Bug reports aren't welcome. There ain't a bug :-/ Regards, Sajith.
woohoo!
Good stuff, I'm happy to see my story posted, though a bit spruced up from my verson (no complaints what-so-ever, I felt my version could have been better, writing is not my forte).
I found this pretty interesting. Hopefully, this will prompt more people to help develop this, and will prompt something like ext3 to finally happen for the hurd. I *hate* fscks. :(
Good stuff.
p00p
"support is still limited, though. It has problems with permissions, special files; and the implementation is still sloppy"
Yea sounds like a great x-mass treat, its like getting a bathing suit for the new inground pool were gonna have in the summer.
Gotta start somewhere.
Gotta start somewhere.
Bad Joke
Although Hurd has been the punchline for a bad joke, remember the Torvalds kernel took awhile. I think folks really need to commit to this system and push forward. There's too much holding back. Not to say the Hurd maintainers aren't doing so, I mean the hacker community needs to jump in. It is what you make of it. Seems like most folks are just fine hacking in higher-level stuff on their GNU/Linux boxes. The benefits of Hurd are quickly attracting eyes, though. Peace.
Well..
I find it impressive that two self proclaimed newbie programmers did this themselves in not a very long time. Even if it is incomplete, this leads me to believe that the hurd might even be somewhat easy to develop for.
What? Easy?
You mean the handful of people that have been trying to make the damn thing work for well over 10 years are just bullshit*ing us?
Umm...
I think the key word in his post was the word "for" as in "develop for". He didn't mean that the HURD was easy to develop. I think it was just a miscommunication.
Keep in mind that a lot of code for reading JFS drives is online - so I'm sure their job was simplified a bit. Although - I'd like to hear from the coders themselves how easy it was to devlop this for the HURD.
Correct
Yes, I meant, "develop for", thank you, Anonymous.
Definitely
I read a lot about the Hurd and run it on my box (although I have to boot into GNU/Linux for ppp).
Kernel hacking without the possibility of a system crash is pretty cool.
I have yet to write a Hurd server myself but it's in my 2003 plan.
Ciaran O'Riordan