From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 12 1: 8:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hal-1.inet.it (hal-1.inet.it [213.92.5.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EA137B417 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:08:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by hal-1.inet.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g2C98B6431980 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:08:11 +0100 Received: from acampi.inet.it(213.92.1.165) by hal-1.inet.it via I-SMTP-4.0.5-100 id s-213.92.1.165-UCXrfs; Tue Mar 12 10:08:11 2002 Received: by acampi.inet.it (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7CF615537; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:08:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:08:10 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <20020312090810.GA8071@webcom.it> References: <20020311184730.GA6282@webcom.it> <21265.1015872658@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21265.1015872658@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Well, I won't promise to pick it up, but if it were working > and there were a test-case or two, the chances of it breaking > again would decrease. It's currently not working I think; I cleaned it up a couple of months ago but I think some recent changes in API might have broken it again. It's a matter of solving the last breakages, having it committed into the arla -current repo, and then hopefully committing it to our own -current. I have the kernel infrastructure ready for building it both in the kernel and as a module. I even posted on -arch I think and the idea met a lukewarm favor. Note that I think the code still needs to be reviewed for the needed locks, but I was also suggested to get into the repo first (as long as it's working) and worry about that later. The only thing that stopped me at the time was that I definitely want to have it committed to the arla repo first and then import on a vendor branch, and keep it there by working with them for any and every future patch. I am sure that if a guy of your ability and experience would look at it, you could have it working in maybe half an hour. Setting up a client is very easy, and having Garance on board to help us test it would be a definite plus. Bye, Andrea > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message