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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-05-08 10:05:11
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On Fri, 7 May 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > At this point I would also like to say that I am no longer going to work > > on NTFS on 2.4 kernels as many of the write support changes to come > > What's the plan, priorities, schedule? plan: Slowly and extremely carefully move the code from ntfs-2.5-devel repository to the ntfs-2.6 repository splitting it up into obviously correct chunks, one release each. ntfs-2.5-devel has a nasty deadlock in it which I never had time to debug and last time I tried to debug it I didn't manage to trigger the deadlock so it is possible that the deadlock was in the generic kernel rather than NTFS, I don't know. But to make sure ntfs-2.6 doesn't end up with a deadlock I am going to do everything in very small obviously correct chunks and release each of them so that they will get maximum testing and should a deadlock occur despite me taking care not to have one than it should be relatively easy to start backing out releases one by one until the deadlock goes away. (Or this is the idea anyway...) The last two releases had a lot of changes but that was because the changes were mostly trivial cleanups or addition of easily understandable/obviously correct code that cannot cause deadlocks. Apart from that there isn't much of a plan, really, except the same what I have always said about how I want to go about implementing write support and I don't want to repeat myself now. (Mostly because I can't remember... (-;) priorities: See above plan. schedule: No such thing... We got some small donations and so I spent quite a lot of time working on the driver as they both asked for "quicker ntfs write support" and I have gotten the driver a little closer to that with the last two releases. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
