Re: Removing softdep

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:47:47AM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >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.

There have been some additional fixes and development but by and large it
is the same code.

> 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.

Even if we could fix the user experience, for those of us working on the
file system code the situation would be unchanged.

Cheers,
Andrew