From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 5 11:58:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9A337B41A for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id C6D1781D09; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:58:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:58:22 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jason Evans Cc: "E.B. Dreger" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIO issues... or not? Message-ID: <20011005135822.F59854@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011005100340.T76373@canonware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011005100340.T76373@canonware.com>; from jasone@canonware.com on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:03:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jason Evans [011005 11:54] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:19:58PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > > However, there's a rather ominous and non-descriptive warning > > present: "There are numerous stability issues in the current aio > > code that make it unsuitable for inclusion on shell boxes." Can > > anyone please elaborate? Is this admonition outdated? > > > > Seen on 4.3-R. > > Alan Cox has done a lot of work to make aio stable over the past year, and > I'm guessing that it's reasonably stable as of 4.2 or 4.3. That warning > can likely be removed. Where was the warning (so it can be removed)? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message