Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:45:26 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: mladavac@metropolitan.at, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? Message-ID: <199903231745.LAA10518@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D09756B@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D09756B@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at> you write: > You will notice that the people from academia are usually >full-time paid by taxpayer money, and are required by law to release >their work to general public. This is the source of new development, >because research is extremely high-skilled labor intensive and hence >expensive. However, it is somewhat illusory to expect that someone on >academic payroll will be allowed to work on snow from yesteryear (well, >previous decade is more like it) such as NFS fixes. If you can get your >Minister of Science and Education to fund such a project, then you have >way better connections than I do to mine. Heh, that's pretty accurate. About the only thing that you can get your Research Lead to authorize funds for is _new_ research. Not fixing old problems (uninteresting, it's just "engineering"), and not "replicating" someone elses's work (quite unfortunate attitude, that). I once brought up the idea of working on something like the equivalent of AFS for FreeBSD to one of my professors, and his response was that it was not research; it was just an implementation. Now, designing/implementing something like an "NFSv4", might be considered research, but probably would be at cross purposes with FreeBSD's goals. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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