Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:02:03 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > freeze will be in three months, and VFS/VM code freeze will be in 6 weeks. > > Sorry, I'd like to see 2.4 ship in three months, but I am hearing people guess > > that it won't ship this year, and if they are right maybe we will be best off > > admitting it. > > 6 weeks to fix the VM is too short. But then I think we may have to accept > that we dont get the VM perfect until 2.5. We just need to get it back working > as well as 2.0 did > > Alan >
Alan,
I think the soak time for 2.4 will probably continue past this since there's still tons of stuff still pending (including me getting my code tuned). I've been working on auto-repair from the driver so the FS can auto repair itself just like NetWare does when it mounts volumes. The biggest issue is that 2.4 still needs Linus and you to get everyone out of the code for a couple of months, and you guys do some performance tuning work without it chaning beneath you. 6 weeks is very agressive. I think you could make this date, but the performance work still will need to get done, and I don't see how with all the stuff going on how you guys will get this done in 6 weeks. To date 2.4 is still noticeably slower than the 2.2 tree in some areas and overall, at least from what we are seeing, but this is just IMHO.
:-)
Jeff
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