Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:25:22 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grrr. NFS to a Sun (Slowaris 5.5.1) Message-ID: <199609101825.LAA19216@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:05:10 PDT." <199609101805.LAA03121@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> > What I dont understand is if no one is working on NFS, how is it going >> > downhill? I mean, cant we just revert back to the NFS that was in 0612, it >> > seemed to work very well. >> >> I think it's more a question of dependencies. You don't need to >> change *anything* in the NFS code to make it break, after all, there >> being so many other things it depends on which can change. > >GHAH. > >It is time to once and for frigging all deine a VFS bottom end for >interfacing to the system. > >I suggest that the interfaces should be macrotized, the expected >behaviour documented, and then any VM changes that take place must >provide macrotized equivalents. > >We can then version the interfaces, as necessary, seperately from >versioning the VM and other fast moving systems, and we can include >"better" interfaces for a given VM when we are permitted to make >cross-FS changes (presumably, this will one day be permitted after >the Lite2 integration that NetBSD and OpenBSD completed shortly >after the Lite2 release, more than a year ago). Cough, sputter... Yes, that would all be nice, but I'd be happy if we'd just get some sort of versioning working for VFS LKMs. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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