From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 16:28:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3113B1065672 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:28:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782F18FC15 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id SAA11221; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:28:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4CD18DB6.5010006@icyb.net.ua> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:28:38 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dan.naumov@gmail.com References: <201011031622.oA3GMl8o032477@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <201011031622.oA3GMl8o032477@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: regarding kern/148655 fix for 8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:28:42 -0000 on 03/11/2010 18:22 Oliver Fromme said the following: > Dan Naumov wrote: > > I am not entirely sure why my question was understood as some kind of > > aggression, that was certainly not my intention. > > > > > When is the fix getting backported from -STABLE to 8.1 as an errata fix? > > I think this a normal, valid question? > > By asking "when" you imply that you expect it to be backported. > You're not asking for it to be backported. That's a difference. > > Note that the PR was closed (already two months ago), which > usually means that no further merges are planned. If you want > the patch to be merged to another branch, like releng/8.1, > you should rather ask for it to be merged, not ask "when" it > will be merged. The likely answer to the latter might be > "never". Oliver made some good points overall, to which I might only add that such decisions are made by Release Engineering team. So a request like this should go to them (re@), not to a mailing list where technical details of filesystem development and usage are typically discussed. -- Andriy Gapon