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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:42:20 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: getting rid of oldnfs
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On 24 October 2014 12:17, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I remember the main reason for keeping oldnfs, both server and client,
> around in HEAD was to facilitate MFC of fixes to the branches which
> still use oldnfs, i.e. stable/8.  If this reason is still valid, oldnfs
> have to stay in HEAD till stable/8 is supported or interested for
> developers.
>
> I usually do not like direct commits into the stable branches.
> Otherwise, I see no reason to keep oldnfs around.

I only see real value in that if we're actually building and testing
it on HEAD on a regular basis though. If we don't build it by default
on HEAD and don't generally test it there, I think we're actually
worse off to commit changes to HEAD first and then MFC.



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