From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 22 19:40:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8783F151C1 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA26924; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903230340.TAA26924@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kevin Day , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dm@globalserve.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :I'm not sure he'd be available, but are you saying that if he had time, :and we were able to offer enough, McKusick couldn't do it? He's not the :only one I'd have sufficient faith in (read that, if they failed, I'd :feel it was well worth the risk). I'd kinda lke to pay Heidemann to :implement stackable filesystems here. You see what I mean. This isn't :something we could do a lot (there is a limit to how much money could be :collected this way) but I think once or twice could be done, and with :potential terrific effect. I think both John Heidemann and Kirk :McKusick would like to do it (although I couldn't guess at their current :calendar commitments). I don't know how much it'd cost us ... Well, you could ask Kirk, but I don't think he'd be interested. I can think of four, possibly five people that could do this, but I can't think of a single one that has the time. We are talking at least 2 months worth of work and probably more for someone who already knows the code, and 4 months of work for someone who doesn't. $25K may seem like a lot of money, but not for 2+ months of work without any guarentee of payment. :> :> -Matt :> :> : :----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- :Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data :chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. :213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | :Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) :(301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). :----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- : : : : : Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message