Re: gvinum remains broken in 5.3-RELEASE?

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:04:13 +1030
On Saturday,  6 November 2004 at 18:39:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote..
>> Hello Wilko,
>>
>> Am Samstag, 6. November 2004 16:21 schrieb Wilko Bulte:
>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:26:16AM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette
>>> wrote..
>>>> I cannot imagine to deliver/sell CDs with 5.3-RELEASE on it with a
>>>> broken gvinum RAID5 where the fix is available for (roughly) 2
>>>> weeks now.
>>>
>>> You obviously have NO idea what it means to build releases for
>>> all the architectures etc etc.
>>
>> My apologies if I made you upset...
>
> Oh, not upset.  Problem is that there are most likely lots of other
> bugs still in 5.3-R.
>
> Thing is, at some point we just need to call it a day and put the
> generated bits on the ftp-servers.  Otherwise there would never
> be a RELEASE..

I can appreciate that the leadup to 5.3-RELEASE has been painful, but
what's the purpose of a release which doesn't work?  For a large
number of Vinum users, 5.3 will be a release to avoid.

Greg
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