Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:52:32 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? Message-ID: <a969fbd10701092252r6d5e1773ldd116d9bbd0f5df1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0701092229s412b522fxf1338eb635191b62@mail.gmail.com> References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <ef10de9a0701091508k7f1775f7h4c2cdc8c7498e7fc@mail.gmail.com> <45A42CF3.4000600@u.washington.edu> <ef10de9a0701092054h157a93a1s8f054e12cb6f91a@mail.gmail.com> <a969fbd10701092108q766fed5doc2213d229a187669@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0701092229s412b522fxf1338eb635191b62@mail.gmail.com>
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If I could program my way out of a _paper bag_ I would. But I cant. But ive helped drive some wonderful gifting Fbsd's way in my time..im still a believer. On 1/9/07, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/9/07, Jeff Mohler <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> wrote: > > Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with > > virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and > > FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. > > > > I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which > > end of a SAN connection owns the responsibility for fsck'ing a SAN > > filesystem, I wonder how quickly I can bone up on Linux. > > > > In ten years at Network Appliance..wanna know exactly how many FreeBSD > > host installs ive seen besides Yahoo? > > > > 2. > > > > How many -non- Linux SAN configurations? Probly 80% of all SAN I see > > and work with are Linux based. > > > > Fbsd NFS client performance is 1/3'd that of a tuned linux box, can > > you say ../..? If you can, you know what its like to never have a > > valid directory attr cache on your mounts. (ick) Automount...dont > > even go there. > > > > Im in this for the long haul..I like Fbsd, and as long s lynx and > > apache still work on it, im happy. As for the future..I just dont see > > much serious future there unless it grows up. > > > > Rememer when Linux couldnt do _crap_ and Fbsd 2.5 was the bomb? I > > do...I want like to see that again. > > > > I'd like to see FreeBSD on top too, I really love and care for it but > I'm very disappointed and ambivalent with the projects current state > of affairs. I think one project that should be attempted is to get > FreeBSD running on top of a Linux kernel. This could potently solve > FreeBSD's biggest problems.... We could mold it (the Linux kernel) > into are own kernel while still maintaining compatibility with the > real Linux kernel tree. anyhow... it's something to think about. >
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