From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 6 9:42:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8174A14E32 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA05280; Thu, 6 May 1999 18:42:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support References: <199905050647.CAA32197@bellsouth.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 May 1999 18:42:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG's message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 02:47:54 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > > He is fixing the (currently completely bogus) vnode locking system so > > it will actually lock vnodes. The downside is, our current NFS > > implementation relies on vnode locking being broken. Fixing stacking > > layers will break NFS. > You're saying NFS isn't broken? ;) Heh :) What i meant was that fixing stacking layers will make NFS not work at all. I may be wrong; the right people to consult about this matter are eivind@freebsd.org and dillon@freebsd.org. > But more seriously, we do look forward to the day when the union > (tranluscent) filesystem is present in -STABLE and can be recommended > for production use. It *is* present in -STABLE, with a big warning in the man page, and it *will* work when Eivind is done. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message