Re: [PATCH] AFS fixes and improvements

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Pavel Roskin<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:36 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Pavel Roskin<address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I think we should release 1.97 first.  Sorry, I know that it's bad to
>> > sit on a pile of code, but in my opinion, the nested partition patch is
>> > too intrusive at this point.
>> >
>> For the release we prepared a lot of improvements for FreeBSD support.
>> Hopefully it will attract new FreeBSD users. Supporting nested
>> partitions required to abandon the syntax like (hd0,a) even if the
>> syntax (hd0,1,a) could be preserved. If we release 1.97 now without
>> nested partition patch it would be much more difficult in the future
>> to break the compatibility with (hd0,a) format. So I would prefer to
>> get nested partition patch in first before releasing 1.97
>
> I don't think making another release would change the situation in any
> way.  Version 1.96 supported the (hd0,a) format, and that wasn't a
> problem.
>
Version 1.96 isn't very usable for freebsd. You basically need
chainload FreeBSD's bootloader to get anything more than module-less
32-bit boot. Now situation has changed
> If you want, we could just disable the (hd0,a) format now without
> actually changing the internals.
I'm ok with it in condition that pre-release freeze period won't last
long. Now Marco Gerards is just back from vacation and I propose to
wait for his statements rather than speaking about virtual release
>
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> Pavel Roskin
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