Benny Lofgren [bl-li...@lofgren.biz] wrote: > > (For example, I'd love to see Jeff Robertson's and Kirk McKusick's > work on soft update journaling that went into FreeBSD 9 in OpenBSD > as well. Had I the time I'd look into it myself (it's a *lot* of work > from what little I've seen of it, but no doubt it would be FUN work) > but alas I don't at the moment, so all I can do is post this wish. :-) >
It might be FUN to use when it's actually working. But if porting it over and teasing out the bugs was all that much fun, you think someone would have reaped those rewards by now. Actually, data loss is really not much fun. Softupdates is one of the worst, because while it has 'worked' for years, it has had major bugs for a long time, complete with hard to reproduce, hard to diagnose problems. If this make -j8 hang is another softdep problem, that's just another testament to how much FUN it really is. If George Soros were to fund OpenBSD development, and all the developers could permanently live in a palace in the Swiss Alps, softupdates work might be considered fun. In that case, OpenBSD would end up with its own custom modern filesystem, written by someone who didn't kill their wife. I think the Soros/Swiss Alps idea is an excellent one.
