Re: unhooking lfs from ufs

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Adam Hamsik wrote:

> On Feb,Monday 8 2010, at 10:37 PM, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> > 
> >> On Feb,Monday 8 2010, at 9:33 PM, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Are you sure that you can really finish this ? Currently you are working 
> >>>> on namei, ufs_lookup and many other issues. Make LFS not compilable is 
> >>>> the way to make it disappear very soon. I think that these changes 
> >>>> should happen in separate branch and should be committed back to main 
> >>>> branch only when it will be at least compilable again. 
> >>> 
> >>> s/compilable/reasonably solid/
> >>> 
> >>> I'll be rather upset if my lfs partitions suddenly stop working.
> >> 
> >> LFS is not solid for a long time, now. 
> > 
> > The only problems I've been having with it resently are media errors.
> 
> What version of NetBSD are you using ? LFS is known to be broken after 
> vmlocking2 merge, because it heavily depended on kernel big lock model used 
> before.

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