Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:40:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dm@globalserve.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <199903230340.TAA26924@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903222217010.12756-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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:I'm not sure he'd be available, but are you saying that if he had time,
:and we were able to offer enough, McKusick couldn't do it? He's not the
:only one I'd have sufficient faith in (read that, if they failed, I'd
:feel it was well worth the risk). I'd kinda lke to pay Heidemann to
:implement stackable filesystems here. You see what I mean. This isn't
:something we could do a lot (there is a limit to how much money could be
:collected this way) but I think once or twice could be done, and with
:potential terrific effect. I think both John Heidemann and Kirk
:McKusick would like to do it (although I couldn't guess at their current
:calendar commitments). I don't know how much it'd cost us ...
Well, you could ask Kirk, but I don't think he'd be interested.
I can think of four, possibly five people that could do this, but I
can't think of a single one that has the time. We are talking at
least 2 months worth of work and probably more for someone who already
knows the code, and 4 months of work for someone who doesn't. $25K
may seem like a lot of money, but not for 2+ months of work without
any guarentee of payment.
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