From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 13:21:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org [205.147.43.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6694D37B41C; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3NKKJb38154; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org) Message-Id: <200204232020.g3NKKJb38154@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:20:14 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert (who fits my arbitrary definition of a "good" cynic) writes: > It's a hazard of Open Source projects, in general, that there are > so many people hacking on whatever they think is cool that nothing > ever really gets built to a long term design plan that's stable > enough that a book stands a chance of having a 1 year lifetime. I could not help but notice your multiple attempts at expresing this particular concept often, that is...an implied necessity of a book that explains what's going on under the kernel hood. I agree that such a book would rapidly be out of date, but I also see the necessity thereof. So, it's time to question the assumption that the information you want available should be in "a book". Many websites have "annotation" as a form of ad-hoc documentation (e.g. php.net). Why not have someone take a crack at documenting the FreeBSD kernel, and perhaps use some annotation feature to create a "living" document which (hopefully) comes close to describing the kernel architechture? If you want to track a moving target, perhaps you need to use a moving track? ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< "What's so special about the Net? People -still- don't listen..." -The Unknown Drummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message