Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 11/16/03

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To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>

    At 12:21 AM -0500 11/16/03, Jeff Roberson wrote:
    >On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    >
    > > Or maybe the real problem is that we claim that there will
    > > be no API/ABI changes after X.0-RELEASE, and we've really
    >> missed that mark with 5.0-RELEASE, for a variety of reasons.
    >> If we're going to keep missing that mark with the 6.x-series,
    >> then we should plan to do something to make life a little
    > > less painful.
    >
    >The API and ABI are frozen when we make 5.x-STABLE and
    >branch 6.x. Until then it's open to change. This was
    >decided up front.

    Hmm, Yes it was. I was mixing up the time of X.0-RELEASE
    and making the branch for <X+1>-current. Good point.

    Please note that I'm not unhappy with any of these changes.
    I think they're all very good to get in. But we do have
    hundreds of developers trying to track -current, and I
    think we'd get some productivity boost whenever we can
    make these changes a little smoother. As I mentioned
    earlier, it's only going to get worse as we have more
    developers trying to contribute. Developers that we *do*
    want to be tracking -current...

    <aside>
    And to mention just one change that I'm particularly happy
    with, the change so a single kernel works on both SMP and
    single-processor systems has already saved me some grief.
    My hardware problems were (temporarily) solved by replacing
    my dual-CPU board with a single-CPU one. I'd be in even
    more pain today if it wasn't for that change! I still
    haven't figured out what I'll do with the 4.9-stable
    system on this machine...

    [disclaimer: today has been a long day for me, all spent
      rebuilding freebsd systems from this hardware headache.
      I just now finished successfully upgrading the last 5.x
      system I have (it just booted up as I am typing this).
      So don't mind me too much...]
    </aside> 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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