Comments on: Bounties?

By: ivoras

ivoras — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:04:12 +0000

If the author doesn’t respond, then nobody knows

My theory is still that a monetary incentive to him would help make it quicker

By: Jemochka

Jemochka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:17:39 +0000

Does anybody know what’s the current status of BLUFFS? Sorry to say Stephen Uphoff, its father, doesn’t reply on mails

By: Antony Mawer

Antony Mawer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:11:20 +0000

I’d be very keen to put money where my mouth is if it helped make BLUFFS happen. I agree that it’s a desperately needed feature—I avoid bgfsck after having been burned in the past, ZFS is too memory hungry for general server use (fine if its a dedicated file server and you can load it up with RAM), and while gjournal provides a solution, it can be pessimistically slow in some situations…

Trying to explain to clients why their systems sit unusable for 15-20 minutes while they sit there fsck’ing after an extended power outage is growing tiring, when most of them struggle to remember back to the Win9x days of scandisk after an unclean shutdown. And back then you were only checking at most a couple of gig… fsck’ing 500gb filesystems is just painful!

By: m1ha5

m1ha5 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:39:11 +0000

Hello,

Whats required for bluff’s development to be included into FreeBSD (6/7-Stable) ?

Feel free to email to details and any required sponsership information. I know the freebsd foundation made good this year, but am unsure if any of that will goto bluffs.

Regards,

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Rada — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:19:08 +0000

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By: bilge

bilge — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:30:03 +0000

Bonza! Bounties are a great idea. Would’ve been great to see some sort of FreeBSD bounty setup years ago. I donate to the Foundation once a year, but I’d also like to throw money at specific projects along my thoughts of interest. I always wanted to donate money to some FreeBSD developer(s) working on KGI or Tendra(tendra.org)....alas, nowdays their may be other projects that would except my future bounty donations.

By: ivoras

ivoras — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:34:42 +0000

re: softupdates

It’s been made for a different time. Today, there are several things going against it:

– It still requires (bg)fsck, which can take a long time and consume large amounts of memory on big file systems (500 gb+)
– Hardware today doesn’t keep to the assumptions made when softupdates were created, wrt caching. Every now and then people lose chunks of their file systems when power fails. Journaling has slightly different assumptions which seem to work better with todays hardware (especially since it’s so widely used that nobody cares about compliance with “other” solutions).

It’s not like softupdates is terminally bad, it’s just that time has come to move on.

By: jema

jema — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:59:43 +0000

Yeah, Ivan, it’s a real necessity for us, The BLUFFS is particularily the most important and actual for our community, Personally, I’m ready to support this bounty.

By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:58:04 +0000

I’m purely a FreeBSD user, but have been thinking about proposing bounties for quiet some time already. It great that you – as a FreeBSD developer – like the idea of bounties as well.

I’d be willing to contribute to funding someone who implements suspend for SMP (think Core 2 Duo) systems.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:31:01 +0000

I think bounties could be great for the FreeBSD project. A related FreeBSD-based project, pfSense, has been using them successfully for the last couple years to get important features implemented.

It’s great for the project, as important functionality is available for everyone. It’s great for the project’s contributors, getting them paid for work they like and want to do, and in some cases they would have done anyway.