OpenBSD dev potshot at HAMMER2

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 17:14:52 PDT 2015


On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
wrote:

>     I'll try to keep the document more up-to-date.  I added a section at
>     the top showing its current status.  Good progress is being made and,
>     in fact, just using it as a normal one-off filesystem works pretty
> well,
>     with some caveats.  But it is not ready for prime time yet, and it
> won't
>     be until I am happy with basic multi-master operation and have working
>     high-level network protocols for remote access with cache coherency.
>
>     Also, I am still making minor adjustments to the media format every
>     week, and anyone trying to use it seriously now will break pretty
>     quickly.
>
>     There are lots of things on the roadmap, the basic roadmap for my
>     work right now is:
>
>         - error handling
>         - synchronization to out-of-sync masters and slaves (w/local
> storage)
>         - multi-master with local storage
>
>     Once I have it working well with local storage I will start on the
>     higher-level network protocols which themselves are quite complex,
>     particularly when dealing with cache coherency issues.
>
>     There are also going to be some significant personal interruptions
>     this year that will slow the work down.
>
>     --
>
>     In anycase, I don't think the openbsd dev actually took any sort of
>     serious potshot at H2, the slide show was mostly talking about
>     OpenBSD's own forward-development issues.  DragonFly's forward
>     development issues are in very good shape, mostly owing to the
>     hard work of DFly developers on major subsystems over the last decade
>     and very strong porting work in other areas that leverages stuff from
>     linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
>
>     I like to think of H2 as the capper, so I am going to do it right.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon at backplane.com>
>
>


Are you using a formal testing system like kyua , Jenkins used in FreeBSD ?


Thank you very much .



Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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