From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 3 08:43:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA17378 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 08:43:22 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA17364 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 08:43:17 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA02861; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:43:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:43:34 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199511031643.LAA02861@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: phk@critter.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFD: VFS, non-Intel architectures Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <47ctsi$190f@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >It seems to me that you are attacking the porting owrk from the wrong end. >Since you quite obviously havn't thought much about how to attack this >task I volounteer to educate you a bit here: >I would suggest you start out by (re)reading a couple of the classic >papers on porting unix to another platform for hints and ideas, >Bell Labs for instance had a couple of classics that it seems you >have never understood (assuming you ever actually read them). >My personal suggestion to you would be: [clip] >If I had paid you to port FreeBSD, and you came to me with this "I >need to fix the VFS" crap, you wouldn't even have had time to print >your resume before you left. >I wish I could afford to buy another computer right now, and I would >love to produce a port before you do. >I'm sure I could beat you to it, considering that I know nothing >about the Power, havn't done it before, have a job and a family, >and don't have to write N*10K emails all the time. >Come on Terry, show us, prove that you can deliver what your mouth >keeps babling about, show us a kernel that boots on a Power at Xmas >and have a complete selfhosted port ready by easter... Is there any reason for this rediculus, self-serving, childish attack on someone who has made a very reasonable and pretty well thought out proposal to clean-up some portions of FreeBSD that very well may need it? Whats the deal? I for one would *love* to have JFS, and if it is a cleanup of VFS that makes it happen, again, where is the problem? I personally do not see why you would fly off and attack Terry in response to a message calling for discussion (Im assuming an implied discussion of technical merit) on the topic. Am I to assume that any message that attempts to discuss changes in the FreeBSD kernel will always generate this kind of response? -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/