Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: julian@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KSE settling in (smbfs broken) again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110051139380.8035-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <18481.1002292070@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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A second response: As far as I know the two filesystems smbfs and nwfs are the only two parts of the system that remain to be done (and ncp which is part of nwfs) There are some issues with it that I don't really follow as I don't understand the protocols.. Both of these filesystems seem to have some idea of a "session" and it's not clear whether a session is a process or thread property.. (probably process), however they use the process pointer to serialise access within transaction lists so there isn't any built in protection when we move to threads. I need to look at it again.. (I figured I just didn't have the time to try understand it all AND do the rest of the kernel.) Of course the best woudl be if Mr. Popov did the conversion but I believe he's incredibly busy at the moment.. Certainly if someone else wants to make an effort at it. they are welcome to do it.. otherwise I will eventually get to it. (but I have no way to test them). I did hear a rumour that ntfs was also a casualty, but I also heard from someone that it works so I'm not sure what to think.. I can;t test that one either.. If it does crash, some core-dumps would be a good idea. On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi Julian, > > I didn't realize that smbfs was a KSE casualty, but it's nice that you > made this obvious with the following in sys/modules/Makefile: > > #removed while KSE settles in: > # smbfs \ > > So at least it didn't take me long to figure out what was going on. > > My question is what sort of timeframe this "settling in" is likely to > involve? > > I would have thought that a disconnected module would rot, but your > settling in comment suggests that you have plans to reconnect it > yourself? > > Or is this another way of saying "dead unless someone else fixes for > KSE"? > > I copied the -current list because I doubt I'm the only one who's > wondering how this is all going to work. > > Basically, I think a lot of us are wondering whether we can sit back and > wait for you to fix the stuff that stopped working after the KSE import, > or whether you're sitting back and waiting for us to do it. :-) > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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