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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 1996 16:23:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, julian@current1.whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: please comment on this:
Message-ID:  <m0uoG4q-000IDOC@venus.mcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608072108.OAA15843@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 7, 96 02:08:40 pm

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> 
> > We have over 450 virtual servers running across 4 massively-hyped Pentia
> > machines.
> > 
> > On the other hand, there's all kinds of proprietary software extensions
> > (including kernel stuff) that we have in here to support this, automated and
> > semi-automated load-balancing, customer control of the virtual partitions,
> > etc.
> 
> So...
> 
> You want to contribute some of that back so that subsequent FreeBSD
> releases take your patches into account so that you won't have to
> redo them over and over again each time you upgrade your version
> of FreeBSD?
> 
> Seems like you could offload a large piece of your maintenance headache...
> 
> 8-) 8-) 8-).

It wouldn't do you a whole lot of good without the authentication database
stuff for the cluster we have here :-)

There are too many interweaved parts here to separate out only the "kernel"
or "core" components -- sorry.

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