Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:08:27 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <32655CDB.59E2B600@whistle.com> References: <29588.845495654@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 1) More pounding on devfs (is it planned as a standard feature installed > > by sysinstall, or more of an optional feature installed by hand?) > > The latter. AFAIK, Julian still hasn't solved the persistance problem > (though we discussed a number of different ways it could be done > fairly trivially and I don't know what's holding him up) real work (TM) > and people running > with it as their /dev still show an unfortunate tendency to crash > a lot, that's actually not true at all. > so no. personally I don't think persistance is of any importance but I hear the crowd yelling for their placebo's so I will do it some time.. but it tripples the complexity of the filesystem. > > > So the way I see things (and since I'm not a core team person, this is > > just my opinion), FreeBSD 2.2 could easily be released by Christmas, or > > even the end of November. I think if the core team puts the squeeze on > sure.. > NFS weirdness seems to be the #1 monster under the bed with 2.2 - > might some of you folks out there with multiple machines be willing to > assist John and Doug with some stress-testing? If you can find and > reproduce bugs yourselves, that's even better (e.g. they need someone > to help play QA team on NFS). > we're using 2.2 heavily.. we have 3 outstanding problems one of which might be solved but I haven't checked.. > Jordan
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