From owner-freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 03:07:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E9A16A418; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:07:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4C313C455; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.191]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9497911FE6D8; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:07:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60834-02-3; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:07:48 -0400 (AST) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-7-245-234.eastlink.ca [71.7.245.234]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1E111FDF7B; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:07:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C863446F; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:07:54 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:06:34 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <5A119F13D15018EE7361410B@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20080122091915.Q58270@fledge.watson.org> References: <20080121103924.H73025@fledge.watson.org> <680043819D80C655D73D0DEB@ganymede.hub.org> <20080122091915.Q58270@fledge.watson.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org, jcw@highperformance.net Subject: Re: AFS in FreeBSD ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: The Andrew File System and FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:07:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 09:26:19 +0000 Robert Watson wrote: > Things go into HEAD first, and 7-STABLE looks a lot like HEAD right now so if > it's updated for HEAD it will basically be updated for 7-STABLE. The sooner > we get it into HEAD, the sooner it can go into 7-STABLE, and the more easily. > But the key concern here is trying to stop the perpetual falling behind that > nnpfs suffers from due to the pace of FreeBSD VFS development. The theory is > that if we get it into HEAD, perhaps it will stop falling behind because, > rather than becoming a maze of ifdefs and requiring lots of hacking to update > to a multiple-year-old release, it gets updated as part of the great VFS rush > and requires only minor tweaking when someone notices that something has gone > wrong. Agreed, and thank you for this ... I have no problem with using a port for 6.x, since 6.x shouldn't be a moving target, once its working, it should be fine ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHlq874QvfyHIvDvMRAi1TAJ9XUXWyNy+DFM6W+7YJmv25TYh38wCgyoQ5 gh241ZD5sSigHW+eDAb2OPI= =Ol32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----