From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 23 9:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9F9153B6 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12109; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:45:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA07017; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:45:26 -0600 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id LAA10518; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:45:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:45:26 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199903231745.LAA10518@free.pcs> To: mladavac@metropolitan.at, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - Will it ever be fixed? X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article 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