Why 7.0 is so late ?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:28:35PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Gueven Bay wrote:
> 
> > So, but the original question was : What is not working _now_  at this
> > moment so that 7 cannot be released _now_ ?
> 
> I can think of several issues of the top of my head:
> 
> - rt_check bug in network routing causes panics under certain
> circumnstances (my favorite)
> - ZFS relatively often panics the system under high load
> - Something's also wrong with UFS under certain circumstances (this one
> hasn't bit me yet)
> 
> Of these, first one has a patch (as of yesterday) that is very likely to
> solve the problem, the second has a temporary-looking patch to patch
> around the problem, and the third bug is still not tracked down yet.
> 
> There may be more. I seem to recall there's something in the TCP/IP
> stack but it has never bit me so I don't know the details.

Thanks.   That is useful information.

> 
> The point is - you *don't* want an unstable operating system on a
> production machine. It's best we all wait until these get solved.
> 
> Yes, theoretically there could be a release with these known bugs still
> unresolved, but I recall at least one previous release that did that
> (IIRC 6.0 with (g)vinum was unbootable under some circustances) and that
> has resulted in a bunch of negative press toward FreeBSD.

No one is arguing against that.  All are in favor of waiting until
it is ready.   

There are just many of us who would like a little more ongoing information 
on how it is going - such as what you give above, plus maybe an occasional 
guess update.

////jerry