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bring the WAPBL entry more up-to-date and sound less desperate,

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there is not really much preventing it to be enabled by default for
new installs again actually
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$NetBSD: storage,v 1.22 2017/04/19 21:48:58 jdolecek Exp $
$NetBSD: storage,v 1.23 2017/10/31 19:03:32 jdolecek Exp $
NetBSD Storage Roadmap
======================
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disk early) has been examined by several people who know the code base
and judged difficult. Also, some other problems have come to light
more recently; e.g. PR 50725, and 45676. Still, it might be the best
way forward.
way forward. Some performance and stability issues were resolved
in netbsd-8, and more work is planned.
+ There is another journaling FFS; the Harvard one done by Margo
Seltzer's group some years back. We have a copy of this, but as it was
@ -121,6 +122,13 @@ forward. Given the general manpower shortage, it may be that the best
way is whatever looks best to someone who wants to work on the
problem.
- There is no clear timeframe or release target; but given that WAPBL
has been disabled by default for new installs in -7 this problem
can reasonably be said to have become critical.
- jdolecek fixed some WAPBL stability issues, that work is included
in netbsd-8, could be possibly enough for making it default for new
installs again; there is kern/47030 which seems to be triggered by WAPBL
however
- There has been some interest in the Harvard journaling FFS but no
significant progress. Nobody is known to be working on or particularly
interested in porting softupdates-with-journaling. And, while
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realistic prospect of significant progress on that in the
foreseeable future, and nobody else is known to have or be working
on even that much.
- There is no clear timeframe or release target; but given that WAPBL
has been disabled by default for new installs in -7 this problem
can reasonably be said to have become critical.
- jdolecek is working on fixing WAPBL, goal is to get WAPBL fixed
enough to be safe to re-enable as default for -8
- Contact joerg or martin regarding WAPBL; contact dholland regarding
the Harvard journaling FFS.
- Contact joerg, martin, or jdolecek regarding WAPBL; contact dholland
regarding the Harvard journaling FFS.
4. Getting zfs working for real