From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jan 21 19:10: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A81A37B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.synology.com (dns1.synology.com [210.58.106.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EFE43ED8 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cheen@synology.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.synology.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id h0M39n5o089224; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:09:49 +0800 (CST) Received: from cheennotebook ([192.168.1.187]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.synology.com (8.12.5/8.12.5av) with ESMTP id h0M39bOT089204; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:09:48 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <000e01c2c1c3$f7c0b3e0$bb01a8c0@cheennotebook> From: "Cheen Liao" To: "Terry Lambert" , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: References: <20030114192634.75751.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> <20030117075118.GA3493@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3E27DA7F.D5DBEFB@mindspring.com> <20030117222410.GA5449@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <001401c2be93$c36c7490$681adf3d@homexp> <3E2DCE86.4C416E28@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:11:31 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for sharing your experience. This is exactly our concerns. We will not work on 5.0 kernel till its code are "stable". Thanks, Cheen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: "Cheen Liao" ; Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Transaction File System - a replacement of JFS > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Cheen Liao" writes: > > > . develop a prototype on FreeBSD 4.x. > > > > Don't bother. Save yourselves a lot of pain by going directly to 5.0. > > 4.x is a stable sytem, and unlikely to change interfaces out > from under a developer. Not so, 5.x. > > It's much easier to get something working, pick a flag day, and > do a port, than it is to try and track changes (I made this > mistake when John Dyson was revving the VM system, when I did > a FreeBSD port to the Motorolla PPC "PowerStack" systems, back > in 1996). > > >From personal commercial experience, *never* try to track a > moving target, if what you are using the code for is as a > platform for research and/or developement, rather than as an > ends in itself. FreeBSD people seem to forget that the purpose > of most FreeBSD users is not simply "to make FreeBSD better". > > 8-). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message