Over at IsComputerOn, an article discusses with Axel Dörfler, the Haiku move for the FreeBSD network stack. Also talked about is the thought of using ReiserFS instead of BFS.
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Member since:2005-06-28
To all those who don't know: BeOS/Zeta's own "BONE" networking stack is HIGHLY based on the FreeBSD networking stack. It does not use portions of its code, but this is where the Be engineers LOOKED and got INSPIRED and used IDEAS in order to write Bone.
So, when Axel says "I want to use FreeBSD's stack", he doesn't go too far from where Be engineers themselves looked. It is all good IMHO and a nice idea.
As for ReiserFS 4, as long as it does provide ALL the BFS features, I agree that it is a good idea to switch to it too, because Haiku's BFS was *never* really TESTED as they properly testing file systems on other commercial OSes: crazy day and night testing that is with SPECIAL scripts. ReiserFS on the other hand *is* enjoying testing from Novell/SuSE, and so it might prove to be a good candidate because of this testing that has undergone.
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2005-07-06
I don't get it? I thought FreeBSD had a stack that was considered at this point to be aging and sub par. A lot of work has gone into making the linux stack multiprocessor friendly and I seem to recall one of BeOS's claims to fame was the the entire GUI was heavily threaded thus yeiled high benefits from SMP systems.
I'm going to guess it's because of licensing.