PCFS mount options "noatime"/"atime" [PSARC/2007/415 FastTrack timeout]

[James Carlson]

Frank Hofmann writes:
> I'd rather set up a skunkworks project on OpenSolaris to create a 
> from-the-ground-up reimplementation, than continue to try a rewrite of 
> PCFS from within Sun, getting the community "involved". Anything, as long 
> as it's not called "PCFS".

Agreed ... but I don't see that as "skunkworks" at all.  This is
OpenSolaris.  Development of all of the open source is supposed to be
controlled by the community.

> That's because an open project can make its own rules, only subject to the 
> constraints of the communities and finally the OGB. Opening an internal 
> product so that the product team decides not only on the "what", but also 
> on the "how" (the set of policies that, for the project, governs who is an 
> acceptable reviewer, and how reviews and tests are done), that has, for me 
> at least, proved to be beyond my abilities.

Nothing special needs to happen.  That's already true, by virtue of
OpenSolaris.

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