On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:27:39AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> 
> # 	McKusick's recent and upcoming development requires changes to the
> # buffer cache locking mechanism. Within FreeBSD, he has changed it so
> 
> ...Kirk McKusick's working on FreeBSD?  I thought he was with BSDi,
> or just off doing his own thing.

He's working soft updates in FreeBSD (after being paid by Whistle to
port it to FreeBSD), and has also been doing some other FS maintenance
with us.  His present FreeBSD-related projects are AFAIK
* Fix stacking layers in FreeBSD (in cooperation with Matt Dillon,
  mainly - I've done some related work)
* Incorporate snapshot support
* Get fsck to be able to run in the background (for fast recovery)

He's also using FreeBSD to teach his kernel internal courses.

I don't know exactly why he's chosen to work with FreeBSD rather than
NetBSD or OpenBSD (or BSDi, but I don't know how much he's working
with them) at this time; I hope he'll end up working somewhat with all
the projects, in order to avoid hard feelings with people working in
the other projects.

Eivind.