Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:16:42 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one Message-ID: <201104180816.42495.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201104172017.p3HKH57W019795@chez.mckusick.com> References: <201104172017.p3HKH57W019795@chez.mckusick.com>
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On Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:17:05 pm Kirk McKusick wrote: > I complete agree with Pawel's assesment. In the end, you have to have > more extensive testing to shake out the last few issues. There is plenty > of time before the 9.0 release, so if any serious issues arise, you can > change the default back. Yes, it needs to start being more widely tested now and the only real way to force that is changing the default. > Kirk McKusick > > =-=-= > > Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:08:34 +0200 > From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> > To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> > Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:49:10AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think that the experimental NFS server is now ready for generic use > > and that the experimental NFS client will be soon, after some commits > > over the next week or so. > > > > How do folks feel w.r.t. making these the default? > > You should definiately do that! > > 1. The code is in the tree for a long time. > 2. Old NFS client/server stays and it is trivial to switch back to them > in case of problems. Would be nice to have UPDATING entry for this. > 3. This is FreeBSD HEAD only for now, so people should be ready for > experimental stuff in there. > 4. Would be great to have NFSv4 in FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. > > Really, Rick, there is nothing to wait for. :) > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com > FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org > Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- John Baldwin
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