From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Jul 25 18:17:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17021 for fs-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 18:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA16991; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 18:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id BAA04928; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 01:17:09 GMT Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:17:09 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: "John S. Dyson" , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Union mounts and other mounts In-Reply-To: <1028.838313231@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199607251559.KAA00163@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes: > >> Terry, are you out there? > >> > >> Please upload your mega patches. I'm sure someone will take a look and > >> maybe we can at least start with getting the locks fixed. > >> > >I want to consider including Terry's stuff. Even though I do filesystem > >hacking from time to time, I think that we need to get agreement from > >other's (on the team) on the changes. The changes have significant > >architectural implications. > > > >At least, in certain areas, Terry is on the right track... We need to > >get consensus on the changes. The last batch of changes don't fix all > >of the problems, and Jeffery Hsu's stuff should be reviewed and appropriately > >included also. I actually think that we are stagnating in this area a "little > >bit." But again, I don't feel qualified to make wholesale changes in that > >(the VFS) section of the kernel, without agreement from others... Anybody > >have any ideas on this impasse? > > I agree. > > Jeff's changes have higher priority for me than Terrys, because they > bring us closer to the codebase Kirk is hacking away on, and he has > some nice things brewing too. I understand that Jeff's Lite2 work needs to be incorporated before any fs commits can be made. I think we're a ways off from any fs commits anyway. There's been very little analysis on this mailing list of the direction the file systems might be taking. I think its a good idea to look at the work that's been done by Terry; identify the changes that you guys agree with; compare and contrast this with Kirk's work when its available; and then make decisions on what to commit. Mike Hancock