From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 6 09:54:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16020 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15992 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18880; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:53:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd018848; Mon Apr 6 09:53:47 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA21621; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 09:53:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804061653.JAA21621@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:53:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <87af9z2z39.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> from "sfarrell+lists@farrell.org" at Apr 6, 98 02:23:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Most of the work is in the interaction with the VM system. > > > > 2.2.x would not be a picnic; some of the assumptions already being > > corrected for in the -current port are based on a unified VM and > > buffer cache model, which is present is -stable, as well. But it's > > cwertainly not outside the realm of possibility for an undergraduate > > student who has half a year of independent study to do something with, > > and no idea what to tackle. > > Hm... does anyone have a sense of what the lifetime of 2.2.x is? > I'm just thinking if it took someone half a year, and 2.2.x would be > dead in 9 months (e.g.), then it wouldn't really be that worthwhile. It would be if you were able to get a Master's degree out of it. 8-). That's certainly not outside the realm of possibility, either. The issues caused by VM and buffer cache unification, alone, would be worthy of study. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message