Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:06:34 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org, jcw@highperformance.net Subject: Re: AFS in FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <5A119F13D15018EE7361410B@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20080122091915.Q58270@fledge.watson.org> References: <B0DF5151ECAB3953AB48EACA@ganymede.hub.org> <20080121103924.H73025@fledge.watson.org> <680043819D80C655D73D0DEB@ganymede.hub.org> <20080122091915.Q58270@fledge.watson.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 09:26:19 +0000 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Things go into HEAD first, and 7-STABLE looks a lot like HEAD right now so if > it's updated for HEAD it will basically be updated for 7-STABLE. The sooner > we get it into HEAD, the sooner it can go into 7-STABLE, and the more easily. > But the key concern here is trying to stop the perpetual falling behind that > nnpfs suffers from due to the pace of FreeBSD VFS development. The theory is > that if we get it into HEAD, perhaps it will stop falling behind because, > rather than becoming a maze of ifdefs and requiring lots of hacking to update > to a multiple-year-old release, it gets updated as part of the great VFS rush > and requires only minor tweaking when someone notices that something has gone > wrong. Agreed, and thank you for this ... I have no problem with using a port for 6.x, since 6.x shouldn't be a moving target, once its working, it should be fine ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHlq874QvfyHIvDvMRAi1TAJ9XUXWyNy+DFM6W+7YJmv25TYh38wCgyoQ5 gh241ZD5sSigHW+eDAb2OPI= =Ol32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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