From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 14:33:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17763 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:33:23 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17755 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:33:19 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05433; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:32:32 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511052232.OAA05433@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd To: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:32:32 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511052145.AA24092@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Nov 5, 95 10:45:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1069 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > (part 2) > > i looked a bit into NetBSD and it's sources and got the following > ideas: I've heard some grumbles about NetBSD's setup and we might do worse than asking them if there is anythign they might do differently if they were to be doing it again.. Failing that, I see no reason for us to be different from them, for no reason. We should also find out what BSDI have done > * one thing that looks very intersting is the ccd-driver (concatenated > disk driver) - using this driver it is possible to realize [..] talk to rgrimes@freebsd.org.. he played with this > > * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think > it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD > (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to > add (maybe i'm wrong) - if NetBSD 1.1 comes out (it's announced for > november the 17th) i'll try how good it is and tell you more about it > (the same for the ccd-driver) We really need someone who's main project is to catalogue the differences and help us pull together.. julian