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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 22:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Future of IFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020516220436.33209B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020516153123.A17588@roaming.cacheboy.net>

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On Thu, 16 May 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2002, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> > As I said, there are really two options following the UFS2 commit: 
> > disconnect it from the build if the maintainer hasn't updated it yet, or
> > remove it until the maintainer replaces it.  If Adrian is willing to do
> > the work, that's great; if he's not, we'll need to find a maintainer. But
> > even if he is the maintainer, my impression from a conversation with him
> > is that he plans to reimplement it *anyway*, making removal of the current
> > IFS non-harmful during the "UFS2 is added but before IFS is replaced"
> > window.  In the event he does plan to "start from" the current code, it
> > will all still be there in the Attic where it can be easily recovered
> > (some files never die...).  Another choice would be for the maintainer to
> > do what is being done from ext2fs: divorce it from the UFS implementation
> > entirely, so that it does get mixed up in the UFS/FFS changes. 
> 
> Kill it. I'll revisit it after the filesystem changes have settled down. 
> 
> (Hi all :-) 

Hey there Adrian!

Well, that was an easy answer.  :-)  Feel free to start doing the whole
commit thing again sometime, too :-)

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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