Re: I vote for updated RAID and KNFSD

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:43:39 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > I was also aware of the earlier RAID thread which was clearly about 2.2.
> > > Actually, Alan included the new RAID code and Linus rejected it.
> >
> > Ok, still the point is that this thread started because of this decision.
> > Sorry if I blamed it on poor Alan...
>
> After we went over it I happen to think Linus was right to reject it. Knfsd
> is less clear - the old knfsd has problems, it is a bug fix. Im reluctant
> to do it for 2.2.13 because with the stuff in the test 2.2.13pre5 it looks
> like a bit of settling time for the fixes then it will be ready.

Sounds reasonable. We need a v2.2.13 out soon, I think, consider the
memory leaks...

> Adding knfsd is going to add a -big- chunk of testing/fallout time.

Hmmm. How about focusing almost exclusively on knfsd for v2.2.14 then?!

/David
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