Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 21:08:54 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: state of fs/udf Message-ID: <44767146.30808@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <44745CF6.1040402@icyb.net.ua> References: <44745CF6.1040402@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote:
> It seems that UDF fs has been in not-well-supported state for a while
> now. It seems that Scott Long, original author and maintainer, has moved
> on to other more important (and, perhaps, interesting) things.
> ("perhaps" - because RE does not seem to be too exciting on the first
> glance)
>
> Meanwhile, there are several bugs still opened for UDF. Some of them are
> pretty obvious, some with good patches, some not so trivial, some
> unhelpful and some are mine :-)
> I think the following PRs are good candidates for review and possible
> inclusion into source:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/77234
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/78987
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/92040
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/84983
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/90521
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/97786
>
> Also, from our private conversations I know that Bruce Evans has even
> more fixes for more problems and better fixes for some bugs described in
> the above PRs. Those patches that I personally submitted do WorkForMe
> (TM), but I think that Bruce has much better understanding of VFS stuff
> and done much better job.
>
> Would some committer be so kind to adopt UDF, review the PRs and fix at
> least the most obvious bugs before 6.2 ?
> I personally promise to help with testing and discussing things.
>
Sorry I've been remiss. I'll look at these this weekend.
Scott
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