I would much rather see something llike wapbl ported than this.. I believe there be dragons here.
You're welcome to try, but I anticipate heartbraak ;) If you're going to try I'd rather see a diff you got *working* rather than just the structure definitions for something that might never be brought to fruition. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > Walter Neto wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Here is the first patch to bring Journaling to OpenBSD based on the McKusick >> paper: https://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/141_suj-slides.pd >> and FreeBSD 10 >> >> This first patch is just for structures and definitions. >> >> I know is my first patch suggestion and this feature is not usual, but I >> am fully focused on making it work, and I hope to receive help from >> expert developers. > > Yikes! > > Do I understand correctly that you do not currently have anything working? > > My opinion is that this feature is too complicated and disruptive. My takeaway > from the talk was "we got it to work, but it was a lot harder than we thought > and probably wouldn't do it again". I think I can safely speak for most of the > other openbsd developers that we are kind of scared of any large (or even > small!) change to the softdep code. > > If this is a topic that interests you, I think the NetBSD wapbl is a simpler > approach. There is even code in bitrig which can likely be made to work on > openbsd. > > The softdep approach is very interesting, so don't let me stop you from > studying it, but if you want something a little more "practical" I think there > are better things to do. >
