[OpenAFS-port-darwin] My Ramblings was--Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3 - MP problem?

[Shantonu Sen]

 =46rom what I've seen and heard, there is no bug in Apple's FS code=20
responsible for these panics.
Apple is not (and should not be) in the business of debugging=20
third-party software. Mac OS X
supports several network filesystems, some with fairly complicated=20
user-space components.

A DTS support request probably requires there be a bug in Mac OS X to=20
fix. I don't see any
evidence of that. Can someone show me what logic problems or other bugs=20=

in xnu are causing
these problems?

If somebody wants to see this fixed, I think they need to pay someone=20
as a contractor to fix this.
Sending kernel panic messages to a mailing list for several months so=20
far has not made
significant progress.

Someone will probably need to do similar contract work for each OS=20
release. I don't believe
Apple has committed to forward-compatible APIs for the filesystem like=20=

they have with the IOKit.

Shantonu

On Feb 16, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote:
>> If it is trivial, then even more so Apple should look at it.
>
> Yes, from what I know from talking to the Apple file system guys=B4
> they would probable fix this in no time (if the problem is as
> small as I hope).
>
>>  And after
>> they solve it publicize it.  It looks good for them and is helpful to
>> us.
>
> We need to convince some management people that this is worth it,
> they obviously haven't understood that yet. :-)
>
> I have a few of those DTS support request things that cost money
> and that I never use, I wonder how much work you could ask of
> them in one support request, and how little knowledge from
> the requestor they will accept. :-)
>
> /ragge
>
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