[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: Thinking about 1.6

[omalleys@msu.edu]

Quoting "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <jhutz@cmu.edu>:

> You must think that people who run production services have nothing =20
> to do all day but buy new hardware and put new operating systems on =20
> it and migrate their services.

Oh I =3Dknow=3D this isn't the case. I get those headaches all the time.

> Also, please bear in mind that "Solaris 8/9" is not one version, and =20
> support timelines for 8 and 9 are not the same.

from  http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_solaris.html

=09              Last ship=09   Phase 1 End Date =09Phase 2 End Date
Solaris 9  =09       10/30/09 =0910/30/11 =0910/30/14
Trusted Solaris8       10/3/08 =09        10/23/10 =0910/23/13
Solaris 8  =09       02/16/07 =093/31/09 =0903/31/12

I figure it will take at least year to get 1.6 out the door especially =20
if the major feature is DAFS support. By that time Solaris 9 will have =20
one foot in the grave when it ships.

However, it might be trivial to keep support for Solaris 9 since that =20
is when the threading model changed which I think was the original =20
persons point.