From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 25 10:03:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28787 for current-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28780 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25960; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:03:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199801251803.NAA25960@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: stable current? In-Reply-To: <199801250910.BAA00416@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> from Scott Michel at "Jan 25, 98 01:10:18 am" To: scottm@cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:03:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Scott Michel said: > > For UNI kernels, John's latest round of vm changes seem to be more > stable -- OTOH I'm not really pushing things that hard either. > Rather than announcing the system is "better", I have been holding out until someone else sees it. The only thing(s) that shouldn't be working are the layered filesystems. Those thing(s) are really broken, and absolutely no Lite/2 derivative has them working properly. Because of the structure of the merged VM/Buffer cache, we haven't had them working for, a long time but now at least we have a better chance of someone fixing them. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.