Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:11:31 +0800 From: "Cheen Liao" <cheen@synology.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> Cc: <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS Message-ID: <000e01c2c1c3$f7c0b3e0$bb01a8c0@cheennotebook> References: <20030114192634.75751.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> <20030117075118.GA3493@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3E27DA7F.D5DBEFB@mindspring.com> <20030117222410.GA5449@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <001401c2be93$c36c7490$681adf3d@homexp> <xzpn0luwl6h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3E2DCE86.4C416E28@mindspring.com>
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Thanks for sharing your experience. This is exactly our concerns. We will not work on 5.0 kernel till its code are "stable". Thanks, Cheen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Cheen Liao" <cheen@synology.com>; <freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Cheen Liao" <cheen@synology.com> writes: > > > . develop a prototype on FreeBSD 4.x. > > > > Don't bother. Save yourselves a lot of pain by going directly to 5.0. > > 4.x is a stable sytem, and unlikely to change interfaces out > from under a developer. Not so, 5.x. > > It's much easier to get something working, pick a flag day, and > do a port, than it is to try and track changes (I made this > mistake when John Dyson was revving the VM system, when I did > a FreeBSD port to the Motorolla PPC "PowerStack" systems, back > in 1996). > > >From personal commercial experience, *never* try to track a > moving target, if what you are using the code for is as a > platform for research and/or developement, rather than as an > ends in itself. FreeBSD people seem to forget that the purpose > of most FreeBSD users is not simply "to make FreeBSD better". > > 8-). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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