From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 16 19: 6:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E8E37B404; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4H25xb5035310; Thu, 16 May 2002 22:05:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:05:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Adrian Chadd Cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Future of IFS In-Reply-To: <20020516153123.A17588@roaming.cacheboy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 16 May 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > > As I said, there are really two options following the UFS2 commit: > > disconnect it from the build if the maintainer hasn't updated it yet, or > > remove it until the maintainer replaces it. If Adrian is willing to do > > the work, that's great; if he's not, we'll need to find a maintainer. But > > even if he is the maintainer, my impression from a conversation with him > > is that he plans to reimplement it *anyway*, making removal of the current > > IFS non-harmful during the "UFS2 is added but before IFS is replaced" > > window. In the event he does plan to "start from" the current code, it > > will all still be there in the Attic where it can be easily recovered > > (some files never die...). Another choice would be for the maintainer to > > do what is being done from ext2fs: divorce it from the UFS implementation > > entirely, so that it does get mixed up in the UFS/FFS changes. > > Kill it. I'll revisit it after the filesystem changes have settled down. > > (Hi all :-) Hey there Adrian! Well, that was an easy answer. :-) Feel free to start doing the whole commit thing again sometime, too :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message