Module Name: src
Committed By: jdolecek
Date: Tue Oct 31 19:03:32 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/doc/roadmaps: storage
Log Message:
bring the WAPBL entry more up-to-date and sound less desperate,
there is not really much preventing it to be enabled by default for
new installs again actually
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.22 -r1.23 src/doc/roadmaps/storage
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Modified files:
Index: src/doc/roadmaps/storage
diff -u src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.22 src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.23
--- src/doc/roadmaps/storage:1.22 Wed Apr 19 21:48:58 2017
+++ src/doc/roadmaps/storage Tue Oct 31 19:03:32 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: storage,v 1.22 2017/04/19 21:48:58 jdolecek Exp $
+$NetBSD: storage,v 1.23 2017/10/31 19:03:32 jdolecek Exp $
NetBSD Storage Roadmap
======================
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ 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, and 45676. Still, it might be the best
-way forward.
+way forward. Some performance and stability issues were resolved
+in netbsd-8, and more work is planned.
+ 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
@@ -121,6 +122,13 @@ forward. Given the general manpower shor
way is whatever looks best to someone who wants to work on the
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 fixed some WAPBL stability issues, that work is included
+ in netbsd-8, could be possibly enough for making it default for new
+ installs again; there is kern/47030 which seems to be triggered by WAPBL
+ however
- 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
@@ -129,13 +137,8 @@ problem.
realistic prospect of significant progress on that in the
foreseeable future, and nobody else is known to have or be working
on even that much.
- - 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.
+ - Contact joerg, martin, or jdolecek regarding WAPBL; contact dholland
+ regarding the Harvard journaling FFS.
4. Getting zfs working for real
