From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 21 22:12:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8172A15222; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA10257; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:09:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199904220509.WAA10257@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) References: <46168.924746184@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_ :> improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would : :Usually when we're sure it's not a pessimization in other ways. I :think people are getting just a bit prematurely excited here, not to :knock Matt's good work or anything but I think even he would be the :last to jump up and down saying "NFS is fixed! It's totally perfect :now!" as some younger, less wise heads are currently saying. :-) : :- Jordan NFS is definitely not fixed. NFS/TCP is still broken, the leasing stuff is still broken, and probably a bunch of other esoteric situations will cause breakage. There are still issues with stale file handles. There is no locking support ( however much NFS locking is a bad idea in general ). But it's *much* better then it was before'. The patch is certainly good enough to commit into -current. It is not commitable to -stable, though, because it depends on -current's VM & VFS/BIO system. From my point of view, NFS/VM/VFS/BIO is now sitting where it *should* have been sitting a year ago if people had been paying more attention to it. If this were a Matt Dillon project, I would be sitting at my first 'beta' release :-( and everything up to this point would have been alpha. We have a long ways to go, folks. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message