From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 19:01:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28672 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28665; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA01268; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:00:13 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199704160200.VAA01268@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Doing the FreeBSD tightrope walk. In-Reply-To: from Jaye Mathisen at "Apr 15, 97 06:25:18 pm" To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:00:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What is aggravating I guess is that I can swear that I've seen on this > list statements to the effect of "Bounce buffers support doesn't hurt > anything, so you might as well leave it in". > So we were wrong :-). I always hated the bounce buffer support that I wrote -- and would have done it better again. But darn'it I don't think that there are many jobs for bounce-buffer writers :-). > > Oh well, now if somebody fixes my regular NFS panics I will be a happier > camper than you can imagine. > I'd love to work on it soon. Right now, my context is in the thread support in current, and then BUGFIXES for the next few days. I am bored of other things, and might look at NFS. John