[Bacula-devel] Bacula version 2.2.x for Solaris, FreeBSD, and Windows

[Brian A. Seklecki]

[cross-posting to freebsd-ports@ where hopefully we'll get some
attention]

FYI: The Bacula project is requesting additional voluntary development
involvement by the FreeBSD community.  A senior "technical liaison" who
can dedicate time to staying abreast of development efforts in Bacula.

Perhaps an organization using Bacula in their corporate infrastructure
can volunteer developer time.

~BAS

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:24 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As I have previously emailed several times over the last 6 months or so, I  no 
> longer build Bacula on Solaris and FreeBSD, and other than testing the Win32 
> client, I am running no regression tests on Win32, Solaris and FreeBSD.  
> 
> The Bacula community must step forward and organize systematically running 
> regression testing, but so far this has not happened (this is quite 
> disappointing).
> 
> I have just completed significant modifications to the Volume reservation code 
> in the Storage daemon (now in the SVN).  There will undoubtedly be some fine 
> tuning before it ships.  However, I suspect that the code now makes recursive 
> mutex calls, which work perfectly well on Linux, but they cause a failure on 
> FreeBSD (this is permitted by the standard), which means that it is quite 
> possible that the current SVN code will fail on FreeBSD.  For Solaris, I am 
> unsure.
> 
> This email is a *BIG* urgent warning that unless the Bacula Solaris and 
> FreeBSD users pull together and organize regression testing, you may find 
> that version 2.2.x will not work on your platform, and it may be difficult to 
> correct problems after production release in a timely fashion since once 
> released, it is not possible to make any significant changes to mutex usage 
> without destabilizing the code.
> 
> Now is the time to test and bring any problems to my attention.  I am ready to 
> help you get the regression tests working and to fix mutex usage so that it 
> works on your platform during the current development cycle.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kern
> 
> PS: I will be out of town from this afternoon until late Tuesday.
> 
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