Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:52:41 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> To: Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts Message-ID: <20120830195241.5795a3bd@kan.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG27QgQOt%2BFD_Ef5HuiJV2euTzPLXk-nNN8iJ1L-2DmU0fKPxg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG27QgS5a121tWEdMpCv-tQNiSQ6pah9pryFLkyar-Vsu_Ud9g@mail.gmail.com> <951954369.1342002.1346354568372.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <CAG27QgQOt%2BFD_Ef5HuiJV2euTzPLXk-nNN8iJ1L-2DmU0fKPxg@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_/6bcU4Zw=GH6N+IYTdlQp4z/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:54:12 -0700 Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote: > > Although I'd see it as an option initially, planning on supporting > > both "forever" would just result in bloat and yet more software to > > try and maintain, imho. (Theoretical comment, at least until a > > solid autofs port exists.) >=20 > I don't see that as a valid argument against adding an autofs port. > Should we drop the port for Exim or Postgres, because ports for > Sendmail and mySQL exist? >=20 No, we should not. But we should recognize that current VFS namecache architecture in FreeBSD makes autofs implementation very impractical without implementing full nullfs-like vnode stacking, and _that_ should be considered an argument against adding autofs port and for re-architecting namecache. We've been through this discussion many times before and all cards are marked in this game :) --=20 Alexander Kabaev --Sig_/6bcU4Zw=GH6N+IYTdlQp4z/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFQP/zNQ6z1jMm+XZYRAjV1AJsHMXI56U+ymirZUcjc9Yw8dGizqACdG2bP SpV2NHG9gveJZoic/Vi8wJ4= =57cW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6bcU4Zw=GH6N+IYTdlQp4z/--
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