From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 11 10:21:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A1A14CBE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA67556; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B1B0D7.29AE7D58@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:20:23 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0730 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: Kiril Mitev , Mike Tancsa , tcobb@staff.circle.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On freezes in 3.2-Stable References: <199908111535.PAA06643@loki.ideaglobal.com> <37B19C3B.9143E26A@intercom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > > Kiril Mitev wrote: > > IIRC, cdrom.com runs a 'custom' kernel, and that's putting it mildly > > Now I am curious as to why these special mods are not available > in -CURRENT or -STABLE.... The last post I saw from DG on this topic he said that 90% (more?) of the stuff he has done for wcarchive is in 3.2-Stable now. The rest is of extremely limited interest, would be harder to document than it was to write, and would result in hordes of questions from foolish people who shot themselves in the foot with it even after being told not to use it if they don't understand it. The above is my paraphrase of my current understanding of the situation, so don't hold DG accountable for it. :) This next is purely my commentary on the question itself. The guy makes his living (or part of it anyway) designing high performance systems for people. I don't blame him one little bit if he wants to "hold back" some of what gives him an edge in *highly* competetive field. He's certainly done a WHOLE LOT for the project, much of which the average user never sees, and even more than I am aware of I'm sure. In short, give the guy a break. :) Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message