From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752554AbZHAW0v (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:26:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752499AbZHAW0u (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:26:50 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:49612 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752494AbZHAW0t (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:26:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:26:37 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Daniel Phillips Cc: debian developer , OGAWA Hirofumi , tux3@tux3.org, LKML , corbet@lwn.net Subject: Re: [Tux3] Current Activities? Message-ID: <20090801222637.GA8680@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Daniel Phillips , debian developer , OGAWA Hirofumi , tux3@tux3.org, LKML , corbet@lwn.net References: <6dcc37b30904291901m7abdd6d7q6f44b2c248ec48c4@mail.gmail.com> <200904302049.27235.phillips@phunq.net> <200908010942.52623.phillips@phunq.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908010942.52623.phillips@phunq.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:42:51AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Shapor maintains our website, which does have a wiki. Just ping him on > irc about it. Free hint: make a pointer to the wiki be much more prominent on the tux3.org web site. I tried looking for it on the tux3 web site, and then on google, and the closest thing I could find was this empty wiki: http://bitbucket.org/shapor/tux3/wiki/Home One thing which you might want to include is what makes the tux3 file system unique and why someone might want to use tux3 instead of some other file system? The web site talks about "versioned pointer" which is a technical feature that might appeal to a computer scientist --- but what does that mean to an end user? Performance? Features? If so, which features? From what I can tell, the feature set of tux3 seems to be a subset of btrfs; is there some feature or features that tux3 have that other filesystems will not? Not that I advocate file system developers throwing elbows or otherwise being too competitive with each other, but the reality is that every file system design makes tradeoffs, giving it certain strengths, and some weaknesses. So what *is* tux3's core design focus, in terms of workload, or user base? Making a clear statement about what the goals of the tux3 filesystem on the web site is certainly one of those things that I would recommend. Best regards, - Ted