Re: LSF Papers online?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Monday 13 April 2009 23:40:21 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 20:11:37 Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:09 +0300
> > Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Rrrr lwn.net costs money! I don't see why it has to be there?
> > 
> > Perhaps because *I* was there? :)
> > 
> > As others have noted, the coverage will become free on Thursday.  For
> > those who can't wait, here's a couple of free links:
> > 
> >  day 1:	http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/327601/58395fefaebea3b5/
> >  day 2: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/327740/a4f5f4ae07981cec/
> > 
> > James has also sent me his notes from the storage track; I've formatted
> > them up and put them at:
> > 
> >  http://lwn.net/Articles/328347/
> > 
> > It's not LWN original content (James wouldn't let us pay him for it),
> > so it's free for all readers from the beginning.
> 
> Thanks guys!
> 
> I've started reading it and immediately noticed a thing which made by day. :-)
> 
> Sorry if it will sound off-topic or undiplomatic but it is the best occasion
> to straighten up some facts:
> 
>  "Discussion then moved on to the current status of getting libata out of
>   SCSI: we have had several successes, notably timer handling and pieces of
>   error handling have moved up to block. Unfortunately, the current progress
>   has reached the point where it's being impeded by the legacy IDE subsystem
> 
> Heh, you can also blame the lack of world peace on the legacy IDE subsystem.
> 
> I wonder who came up with this ridiculous excuse (I'm sure it wasn't James!).
> 
> The thing is that during last _five_ years almost nothing was done in this
> direction.  Despite the fact that it was #1 condition under which the whole

s/five/six/

sorry, I keep forgetting that it is 2009 already