Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:49:42 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Cheen Liao <cheen@synology.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS Message-ID: <3E2DCE86.4C416E28@mindspring.com> 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>
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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
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