From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 6 8:14:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34D71538F for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10523; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26721; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:14:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56224.925982116@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 11:14:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: How stable is -current? Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Studded Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-May-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 2. Our architecture is *highly* dependent on NFS. I know that the good >> work on NFS is happening in -current, which is why I'm considering it. >> How well does -current NFS mix with an almost all-Sun network? Any >> plans on MFC'ing the NFS fixes to -stable? > > Matt's submitted some patches for this which I've asked the core team > to review. Anyone else looking for -stable relative NFS patches to > test should send Matt Dillon or I some email and we'll provide you with > the diffs if you'll provide us with the testing. :) I'll gladly test them. I'm in the process of upgrading the lab I run to 3.1 and it depends heavily on NFS. Since the lab is closed during finals I won't be losing massive amounts of data if they go wrong. Send 'em on. :) NFS is a big deal to a lot of us, and we'd like to see the changes MFC'd to -stable if possible. >> 3. How good and how stable is SMP currently, and does -current offer any >> big advantages over -stable in SMP? > > I think SMP is pretty good in either branch, though Luoqi and Alan > have been working to improve it in -current lately. Do you know if they have test patches for -stable as well? Thanks. > - Jordan --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message