From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 3 01:28:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F10C106566B for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:28:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816648FC16 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 10A258C099; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:28:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:28:10 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: Alexander Best Message-ID: <20091103012810.GB31768@lonesome.com> References: <4AEBFAA3.9020003@bsdforen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:53:23 +0000 Cc: Dominic Fandrey , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RC2 mangles msdosfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:28:10 -0000 On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:03:29AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote: > i guess the freebsd-fs@ guys know about these problems but don't have > the time to deal with it. most of them are probably working on zfs. AFAIK there are only a handful of people working on ZFS. We certainly need more people willing to work on filesystems code. In general it does have a large learning curve, so it's not as attractive as some of the other areas. That's probably why, as the kernel has undergone radical changes (e.g. for SMP) over time, that some of the fs code has not kept up. mcl