From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 12:20:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B647106564A; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:20:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6CE8FC16; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B94D146B51; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 590BE8A02A; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:20:44 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:16:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110325; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201104172017.p3HKH57W019795@chez.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: <201104172017.p3HKH57W019795@chez.mckusick.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104180816.42495.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Kirk McKusick , Pawel Jakub Dawidek Subject: Re: RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:20:45 -0000 On Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:17:05 pm Kirk McKusick wrote: > I complete agree with Pawel's assesment. In the end, you have to have > more extensive testing to shake out the last few issues. There is plenty > of time before the 9.0 release, so if any serious issues arise, you can > change the default back. Yes, it needs to start being more widely tested now and the only real way to force that is changing the default. > Kirk McKusick > > =-=-= > > Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:08:34 +0200 > From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek > To: Rick Macklem > Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:49:10AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think that the experimental NFS server is now ready for generic use > > and that the experimental NFS client will be soon, after some commits > > over the next week or so. > > > > How do folks feel w.r.t. making these the default? > > You should definiately do that! > > 1. The code is in the tree for a long time. > 2. Old NFS client/server stays and it is trivial to switch back to them > in case of problems. Would be nice to have UPDATING entry for this. > 3. This is FreeBSD HEAD only for now, so people should be ready for > experimental stuff in there. > 4. Would be great to have NFSv4 in FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. > > Really, Rick, there is nothing to wait for. :) > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com > FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org > Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- John Baldwin