"WARNING: the foo file system is experimental and may be unstable"

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

<snip>
Module Name:    src
Committed By:   ad
Date:           Sun May 18 13:56:12 UTC 2008

Modified Files:
        src/sys/fs/union: union_vfsops.c
        src/sys/ufs/lfs: lfs_vfsops.c

Log Message:
Until these get fixed or replaced:

WARNING: the foo file system is experimental and may be unstable


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.55 -r1.56 src/sys/fs/union/union_vfsops.c
cvs rdiff -r1.262 -r1.263 src/sys/ufs/lfs/lfs_vfsops.c

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
</snip>

May I kindly ask what the motivation was for this addition? Why here, 
and not in the man pages' BUGS section? Why not at least bracketed with 
"#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC ... #endif"?

How does it scale? There are a lot of things in the NetBSD kernel that 
"are experimental and could be unstable"...

        hauke

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