Module Name: src
Committed By: jdolecek
Date: Fri Sep 16 14:55:29 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/doc/roadmaps: storage
Log Message:
I'm working on WAPBL fixes, adjust the entry
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 src/doc/roadmaps/storage
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Index: src/doc/roadmaps/storage
diff -u src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.15 src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.16
--- src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.15 Tue May 17 21:03:36 2016
+++ src/doc/roadmaps/storage Fri Sep 16 14:55:28 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: storage,v 1.15 2016/05/17 21:03:36 christos Exp $
+$NetBSD: storage,v 1.16 2016/09/16 14:55:28 jdolecek Exp $
NetBSD Storage Roadmap
======================
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ best option at this point is:
disk early) has been examined by several people who know the code base
and judged difficult. Also, some other problems have come to light
more recently; e.g. PR 50725, PR 47146, and a problem where truncating
-large sparse files takes ~forever. Also see PR 45676. Still, it might
-be the best way forward.
+large sparse files takes ~forever in PR 49175. Also see PR 45676. Still,
+it might be the best way forward.
+ There is another journaling FFS; the Harvard one done by Margo
Seltzer's group some years back. We have a copy of this, but as it was
@@ -121,9 +121,8 @@ forward. Given the general manpower shor
way is whatever looks best to someone who wants to work on the
problem.
- - As of November 2015 nobody is working on fixing WAPBL. There has
- been some interest in the Harvard journaling FFS but no significant
- progress. Nobody is known to be working on or particularly
+ - There has been some interest in the Harvard journaling FFS but no
+ significant progress. Nobody is known to be working on or particularly
interested in porting softupdates-with-journaling. And, while
dholland has been mumbling for some time about a plan for a
specific new file system to solve this problem, there isn't any
@@ -133,6 +132,8 @@ problem.
- There is no clear timeframe or release target; but given that WAPBL
has been disabled by default for new installs in -7 this problem
can reasonably be said to have become critical.
+ - jdolecek is working on fixing WAPBL, goal is to get WAPBL fixed
+ enough to be safe to re-enable as default for -8
- Contact joerg or martin regarding WAPBL; contact dholland regarding
the Harvard journaling FFS.
