Re: softdeps and NetBSD 6.0

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:47:34PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:44:38PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >
> > there is also a middle ground.  the code/filesystem could just be left  
> > there for people to use it, with all it's "known bugs".
> 
> Not really.  As Andy pointed out when he originally proposed removing
> softdep, the softdep implementation we actually have (as opposed to the
> one we might perhaps like to have) is entangled in various horrible ways
> with the FFS, UFS, and VM code.  Having it in there makes maintaining all
> of that code harder and makes developing new code that interacts with any
> of those parts of the system harder.  And in more than one case, the
> softdep code -- when not in use! -- has caused serious bugs in the other
> components of the system which is touches.

Does this also apply to FreeBSD softdeps code (I guess so)?

  -jm