Subject: Re: Version numbers and features :-)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/2004 19:12:06
In article <20040217201844.D29D022FA2@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com>,
 <skrueger@europe.com> wrote:
>
>> If we get to 1.6ZZ, will this be the first time we hit the third digit?
>AFAIK yes, 1.3K, 1.4ZD, 1.5ZC

file(1) has already been fixed to handle an arbirtrary number of version
chars.

>> At the moment, the only thing that NetBSD needs to make it 
>> feature-complete for me is:
>
>> in the FS arena:
>> .. growable/shrinkable volumes
>well, there's freebsds growfs, but as you might guess,
>it just can "grow size of an existing ufs file system"

/sbin/resize_ffs [for the few, the brave, ...]

>> .. XFS import
>who needs XFS when there's FFS+softupdates :-)

Someone who wants to be able to run their machine minutes, not hours
after a crash.

stos