AFS in FreeBSD ...

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Tue Jan 22 19:07:55 PST 2008


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- --On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 09:26:19 +0000 Robert Watson 
<rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Things go into HEAD first, and 7-STABLE looks a lot like HEAD right now so if
> it's updated for HEAD it will basically be updated for 7-STABLE.  The sooner
> we get it into HEAD, the sooner it can go into 7-STABLE, and the more easily.
> But the key concern here is trying to stop the perpetual falling behind that
> nnpfs suffers from due to the pace of FreeBSD VFS development.  The theory is
> that if we get it into HEAD, perhaps it will stop falling behind because,
> rather than becoming a maze of ifdefs and requiring lots of hacking to update
> to a multiple-year-old release, it gets updated as part of the great VFS rush
> and requires only minor tweaking when someone notices that something has gone
> wrong.

Agreed, and thank you for this ... I have no problem with using a port for 6.x, 
since 6.x shouldn't be a moving target, once its working, it should be fine ...

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