From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 10:35:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3E416A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6E643D31 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2LIXvxC060223 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:33:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i2LIXuDe060220 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:33:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:33:56 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Looking for someone actively using netatalk on 5-CURRENT, willing to , try patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:35:58 -0000 I'm currently working through various parts of the network subsystem in FreeBSD 5-CURRENT looking for things that require fine-grained locking in order for us to push Giant off the network stack top-to-bottom. One of the areas of the stack I'm currently paying a lot of attention to is netatalk. However, I don't have any systems using netatalk, or experience deploying it (last time I touched ethertalk was in 1996, and I used CAP). I'm looking for someone who is: (1) Using netatalk actively on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT. (2) Willing to run some a series of experimental patches on the system. (3) Willing to accept a risk of instability or data loss during testing. (4) Willing to do some basic kernel debugging (run with DDB, generate stack traces from panics, etc). In the short term, the system doesn't need to be SMP, although eventually that would be useful. Right now, I'm just looking for someone able to exercise the code a bit to make sure assertions don't fail, etc. If you fit this description, please contact me privately and I can start dropping you patches to try out. You don't need to be an expert kernel developer, but a bit of experience using a serial console to grab debugging information wouldn't hurt. Thanks! Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research