From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 11 11:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00627 for current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00621 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:33:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04739; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:33:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd004703; Wed Feb 11 12:33:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08353; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:33:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802111933.MAA08353@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: merging win95 and nt filesystem changes into msdosfs To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:33:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dg@root.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802111749.KAA29341@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 11, 98 10:49:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I admit that I have fallen down on providing architecture documents > > to Nate; however, I have provided him with some information, and the > > main complaint was that it was too low level and assumed too much > > knowledge. I have to assume *some* knowledge. > > What you provided to me was a political document riddled with 'this is > why I did this', and what I asked for was a technical document that > explained *what* you were doing, not why. I provided you with a technical document, and you had me cut it down until it was a fluff piece. You either want an architecture document, or you don't. You were asking me to defend my design decisions in such a way as to give so little information that they would appear to be bad decisions. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message