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Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
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havent much to contribute here but...
> 5 - journaling filesystem.
> 
This exists in current, patches are available for 6-stable. I've not
stress tested it too much but its been nicely stable for me so far on
6-stable (non root partition as i havent yet had time to set that up)
see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030803.html
for links.


Vince

> Ultimately I think freebsd is in real danger of losing its stable tag,
> more and more things are not stable on freebsd as they get ignored,
> some of the network drivers appear to be poorly maintained, and its
> lagging behind in the performance charts.  All this considering it
> used to be ahead in the game is a sad state of affairs.
> 
> Would I pay for freebsd? yes but in the right circumstances I fully
> understand its voluntary work in many cases but the worst it gets the
> less inclined people will be to pay.
> 
> Chris
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