Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:22:42 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: getting rid of oldnfs Message-ID: <544B1782.5040307@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5206562.372QOO418I@overcee.wemm.org> References: <691948956.6194558.1414090646089.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410241641370.72164@fledge.watson.org> <5206562.372QOO418I@overcee.wemm.org>
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On 10/25/14, 5:49 AM, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Friday, October 24, 2014 04:43:28 PM Robert Watson wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> Someone just pinged me on this and I figured I should bring it up. >>> >>> 1 - Is anyone out there still using oldnfs due to unresolved >>> >>> problems with the new one? (I am not aware of any outstanding >>> issues in the new nfs that don't exist in the oldnfs.) >>> >>> 2 - Does anyone see a problem with getting rid of oldnfs for >>> >>> FreebSD-11? >>> >>> 3 - If I get rid of it in -head, I can do it either in mid-December >>> >>> or mid-April. (I can't do commits during the winter.) >>> Does anyone have a rough idea when the 11.0 release cycle will >>> start, so I can choose which of the above would be preferable? >>> (I figured I'd wait until after the last 10.n release that happens >>> >>> before 11.0, since it will be easier to MFC before the removal of >>> oldnfs.) >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any comments, rick >>> ps: John, I've cc'd you since I thought you are the guy most likely to >>> >>> need to do commits/MFCs to oldnfs. >> I think removing it is fine, but as early as possible (as John says) to give >> our -CURRENT users time to stop working around bugs and start reporting >> them >> :-). > We still use oldnfs at work, even on 11.x, but I'm very much in favor of > getting back to one single copy. It seems like there's too many things that > are fixed in one stack or the other., We need to stop splitting effort. > > I've asked Rick before to remove it and get back to just "nfs" rather than > "newnfs" etc. > We (work) have a lot of changes to the old nfs server in 8 We will have to port them all to the new server I guess as we go forward.. Rick, maybe I can run the diff past you privately for comment.
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