Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261336AbTIXDRj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:17:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261351AbTIXDRj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:17:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:20103 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261336AbTIXDRh (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:17:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:02 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Larry McVoy , andrea@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Wilcox , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic Message-ID: <20030924031602.GA7887@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Andrea Arcangeli , Larry McVoy , andrea@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Wilcox , Marcelo Tosatti References: <20030923221528.GP1269@velociraptor.random> <20030924003652.GI16314@velociraptor.random> <20030924011951.GA5615@work.bitmover.com> <20030924020409.GL16314@velociraptor.random> <20030924022948.GA6496@work.bitmover.com> <20030924023928.GN16314@velociraptor.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030924023928.GN16314@velociraptor.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.3, required 7, AWL) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1799 Lines: 34 On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:39:28AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:29:48PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:04:09AM +0200, andrea@kernel.org wrote: > > > > What we expected in return was the same understanding. > > > > > > that is not accurate, you also asked us to giveup the freedom of > > > development in your area. > > > > If you were actually doing some significant development then maybe I'd > > respect you. But you aren't. So I don't. You don't have the slightest > > understanding in this area, you've proved that beyond all reasonable > > doubt. So you are just complaining about something you don't understand. > > > > I truly hope you follow in the footsteps of others who got pissed at the > > BK licensing and try to implement a replacement. BK makes VM systems > > seem like child's play. Centralized systems like CVS are child's play. > > If you weren't using the linux VM I'd respect you, but you are, and > still I respected you so far, probably I was wrong. Yeah. I'm using the Linux VM. And it _still_ isn't up to what I managed to accomplish in SunOS. Wake up, dude. You aren't the first one to work in this area, you are just one of the first to work in this area without learning from the people who came before you. Don't believe me? Go to OLS and read the papers. Then read the OS research that has happened in the last 20 years or so. So far you are still catching up. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/