On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:48:21AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : If someone wants to work on this and needs devices/toys (thumb drives, > : external enclosures + hard disks), let me know, I will be more than > : happy to buy them the hardware needed. > > Willing to fund the work on it too? This is a volunteer project, and > you have to motivate people to work on this.
I'm one man with a single day job. I only make so much money a year, most of which goes to rent and co-location bills. Remaining amounts usually go to small hobby projects of mine, or donating money to folks like phk@ to work on features that I'll benefit from (serial console work comes to mind, ditto with BTX fixes). What I'm saying is that I can't afford (literally -- I don't have the cash) to pay someone US$40/hour for programming efforts (especially when I know it'd be a 8-12 week job), but I *can* afford to donate a few hundred bucks getting someone hardware who has the know-how to fix or test things much better than myself. Most of the time though I'm told "I have the hardware I need -- it's a matter of finding the time!" Ain't that the truth. :-) Besides working on ports (which I've been slacking on as of late), this is how I try to help/contribute to the FreeBSD community. > The best one can do without massive buffer cache work is what firewire > does: it has one attachment to handle all umass devices. When the > device goes away, it pauses all operations to that device. If the > device comes back, it resumes the I/O . If the device never comes > back, then the I/O never finishes. This sounds good. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"