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Re: Removing softdep



>Many of these problems have existed for over 8 years, and we haven't made
>progress in resolving them. I believe that's simply because the softdep code
>is difficult and time consuming to maintain. Some of the bugs that I know of
>are easy to reproduce and particularly difficult to fix.

I had some vague memory that the softdep code had additional development
under FreeBSD and that it works well there.  I am not sure if that is
correct, though.

If that is true, is there any hope of importing those fixes into NetBSD?
If not, then I guess there's no reason to keep softdep.

--Ken


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