From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Jan 22 13:19:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C961E37B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0182B43F18 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-163-023-225.bsace7016.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.163.23.225]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA20272; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:19:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E2F0ADB.ACBAA0D6@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:19:23 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Cheen Liao , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS References: <20030114192634.75751.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> <20030117075118.GA3493@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3E27DA7F.D5DBEFB@mindspring.com> <20030117222410.GA5449@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <001401c2be93$c36c7490$681adf3d@homexp> <3E2DCE86.4C416E28@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Cheen Liao" writes: > > > . develop a prototype on FreeBSD 4.x. > > > > Don't bother. Save yourselves a lot of pain by going directly to 5.0. > > 4.x is a stable sytem, and unlikely to change interfaces out > from under a developer. Not so, 5.x. > > It's much easier to get something working, pick a flag day, and > do a port, than it is to try and track changes (I made this > mistake when John Dyson was revving the VM system, when I did > a FreeBSD port to the Motorolla PPC "PowerStack" systems, back > in 1996). > > >From personal commercial experience, *never* try to track a > moving target, if what you are using the code for is as a > platform for research and/or developement, rather than as an > ends in itself. FreeBSD people seem to forget that the purpose > of most FreeBSD users is not simply "to make FreeBSD better". Since the suggestion was to go directly to 5.0, which will be MUCH closer to the interfaces expected to remain stable on 5.x, the above remarks are not particularly relevant, however true they might be. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message