From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 16:36:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03947 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03941 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28117; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:34:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19981019193416.A28045@vmunix.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:34:16 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert Cc: dg@root.com, green@zone.syracuse.NET, grog@lemis.com, julian@whistle.com, bag@sinbin.demos.su, rock@cs.uni-sb.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem References: <199810182048.NAA10205@usr07.primenet.com> <199810182142.OAA14283@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199810182142.OAA14283@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:42:56PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 02:42:56PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Has anyone asked Rick Macklem about this? > > Rick bowed out of the NFS game a long time ago. Kirk would be a better > bet. > > We do actually have an indirect contact with Rick via Mark Mayo, and > he's lukewarm at best about doing anything with his old code, let alone > talking about it. I do see Rick from time to time at the bar, so if anybody has *specific* questions about things in the NFS code I can always group them up and go over things with Rick in person. He's pretty much "inaccessable" via email, but in person he occasionally gets interested and reveals some nuggets of information. :-) In general, he's not interested in helping FreeBSD in any way, since he thinks the code has become too "polluted" and "complicated" now. (which I would disagree with.. initial inspection by myself a while ago suggested that not much at all has really changed..) At any rate, if you find problems with *Rick's* code, I'd bet he'll fix it, if he still remembers any of it.. :-) As for any other help, as I said, give me a list of specific questions and I'll do my best to get answers. -Mark > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Church says the earth is flat. But I know it's round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - Ferdinand Magellan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message