Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:56:16 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - make world fails Message-ID: <19980301095616.35833@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <19980301130757.56972@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:07:57PM %2B0100 References: <19980228233515.48898@mcs.net> <199803010540.QAA21068@cimlogic.com.au> <19980228234146.52327@mcs.net> <19980301130757.56972@follo.net>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 01:07:57PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 11:41:46PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > > I've seen enough commentary on the hackers and current lists to think that > > perhaps its not a good idea to consider -current a stable piece of code > > right now..... am I right in this? In particular, the place I usually run > > into trouble is the NFS code and its stability. > > NFS w/Terry's patches should be fairly good now (but I don't run it harshly, > so I really can't tell). > > Apart from build problems (which have usually been for minor things) and > sporadic VM-problems (I'm not certain if all of these are fixed) -current > seems to be fairly stable right now. The build problems haven't been due to > major changes; these usually come from minor changes, and don't indicate > -current's health too well. > > Eivind. Well, that's not good enough. Terry's patches haven't been committed, and there has to be a reason for that. I HATE off-stream things. I have to deal with some of them all the time, because we have some local ones (to do our funny clustering and kernel-based permission masking, to name two). That's enough of a pain in the ass to track across multiple revisions. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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