From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 11:28:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCB037B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE0643F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5JISOPx028268; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:28:24 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030619121550.H51411@hub.org> References: <2687.1056023029@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030619121550.H51411@hub.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:28:23 -0400 To: The Hermit Hacker , Poul-Henning Kamp From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/nullfs null.h null_subr.c null_vnops.c X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:28:27 -0000 At 12:16 PM -0300 6/19/03, The Hermit Hacker wrote: >On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > My comments about nullfs and unionfs, shoul not be construed > > as I want to kill those features, it was more meant as "they > > will not be my primary priorities and if they break > > temporarily, so be it." > >Ah, well, 'break temporarily' doesn't worry me too much ... I >just got the impression of "rip out completely" from your one >note, which had me concerned :( If you have a bad enough situation, then sometimes the best way to start fixing it is by just ripping out what's there... But if I remember right, Poul was talking about work that would be started in the 6.x-branch. There should be plenty of time before 6.x is the branch that anyone would *need* to use in production, and presumably the new improved versions would be in place before that time. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu