Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:09:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) Message-ID: <199904220509.WAA10257@apollo.backplane.com> References: <46168.924746184@zippy.cdrom.com>
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:> Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_
:> improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would
:
:Usually when we're sure it's not a pessimization in other ways. I
:think people are getting just a bit prematurely excited here, not to
:knock Matt's good work or anything but I think even he would be the
:last to jump up and down saying "NFS is fixed! It's totally perfect
:now!" as some younger, less wise heads are currently saying. :-)
:
:- Jordan
NFS is definitely not fixed. NFS/TCP is still broken, the leasing stuff
is still broken, and probably a bunch of other esoteric situations will
cause breakage. There are still issues with stale file handles. There is
no locking support ( however much NFS locking is a bad idea in general ).
But it's *much* better then it was before'. The patch is certainly
good enough to commit into -current.
It is not commitable to -stable, though, because it depends on -current's
VM & VFS/BIO system.
From my point of view, NFS/VM/VFS/BIO is now sitting where it *should*
have been sitting a year ago if people had been paying more attention to
it. If this were a Matt Dillon project, I would be sitting at my first
'beta' release :-( and everything up to this point would have been alpha.
We have a long ways to go, folks.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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