From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 16:16:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A09316A407 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F92143D4C for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:16:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:16:56 -0400 id 00056446.45213B78.00010658 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Oct 2006 12:14:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:16:55 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Francisco Reyes Message-Id: <20061002121655.f1ae5954.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20060921182252.GA24321@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060921184546.GA24778@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Conlen , questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: 6.1 and NFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:16:58 -0000 In response to Francisco Reyes : > Kris Kennaway writes: > > > There are a number of PRs I filed, but those aren't all of the > > problems. It will require fairly major work to fix - the best hope > > would be if someone was funded to work on it. > > A couple of months back the place I work for had a number of issues with > NFS. We tried to find someone to work with us and we were offering to pay. > After weeks searching I was unable to find someone. A few weeks later We got > in touch with Mohan Srinivasan who graciously spent time during his vacation > to help us. > > Although I believe our problems were in a good deal related to our own > network quality the state of the NFS server seems to need some considerable > work. Also we found a couple of additional bugs with the client which made > things even worse. > > So.. if there is someone who is willing to work on NFS.. as a contract there > needs to be a way for companies willing to fund it to get in touch with such > person(s). Perhaps there could be a list/forum where people familiar with > internals such as NFS, can post their availability and willingness to do > contract work so companies willing to fund development in a particular area > can get in touch with the right people. Have you tried contacting the Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ It's my understanding that they coordinate most of this money -> developers stuff ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.