From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 12 8:43:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hal-1.inet.it (hal-1.inet.it [213.92.5.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641D837C0F6 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:41:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by hal-1.inet.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g2CGf8684248 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:41:08 +0100 Received: from acampi.inet.it(213.92.1.165) by hal-1.inet.it via I-SMTP-4.0.5-100 id s-213.92.1.165-cHvL46; Tue Mar 12 17:41:08 2002 Received: from webcom.it (brian.inet.it [213.92.1.190]) by acampi.inet.it (Postfix) with SMTP id B949715537 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:41:06 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 30543 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Mar 2002 15:21:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:21:26 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Robert Watson Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Garance A Drosihn , Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <20020312152126.GA309@webcom.it> References: <20020312090810.GA8071@webcom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:26:38AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > I'm very interested in seeing arlaxfs move into the source tree, > especially if Arla people are willing to help with the inevitable cache > coherency problem of it being there. Do you have in mind that this would > be "contrib" code, or local code? Presumably local if we want to adapt it > more to our locking model. The sooner we get it in the tree, the less > work to do it later after more API sweeps go through. The arla people seem to be interested in integrating any change we might send them. That said, I thought it would be contrib code, so that we could keep it in sync with *BSD and OS X. There is enough modularity in the code that it can accomodate our locking changes in the future without interfering with other *BSD code. That said, it's also true that having it as contrib code means we must strive to filter changes through them to avoid taking the code off the vendor branch, so this might be very inconvenient at times. Basically, I think it's the committer's choice... As I said, I did the bulk of the job but right now lack the time to properly maintain the patches. The reason I wanted to get them committed is to be sure they are not left out of future changes for locking, kse, whatever. I'm going to send them via private mail to whomever showed interest, and I'll be available to explain what I did and any missing detail. At this point, if you or Poul want to commit them as they are as local code and later sync back with arla, that would be fine for me. Bye, Andrea -- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message