Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:25:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: tom@sdf.com, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, frank@our.domaintje.com, tcobb@staff.circle.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? Message-ID: <199804060125.SAA09720@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199804052258.PAA00553@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Apr 5, 98 03:58:47 pm
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> > > If patches were provided, say for soft updates, would they be > > > integrated, or would thy have to remain "third party"? > > > > Would said patches work? > > > > Softupdates in current does not work. Someone would have to pull quite > > the rabbit out of their hat to get softupdates to work in 2.2.x before > > current. > > Not so sure about that . -current has had quite a few VM changes in it. I think this is very true; this is pretty much what I was alluding to with my question. I think -stable would be an easy port, if someone were familiar with the OpenBSD code and wanted to take a stab at it. Most of the work is in the interaction with the VM system. 2.2.x would not be a picnic; some of the assumptions already being corrected for in the -current port are based on a unified VM and buffer cache model, which is present is -stable, as well. But it's cwertainly not outside the realm of possibility for an undergraduate student who has half a year of independent study to do something with, and no idea what to tackle. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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