HAMMER work is still progressing well, I hope to have most of it

    working in a degenerate single-cluster (64MB filesystem) case by the

    end of next week.  (cluster == 64MB block of the disk, not cluster as

    in clustering).
    Gluing the per-cluster B-Tree's together for the multi-cluster case

    is turning out to be more of a headache and will probably take at

    least 2 weeks to get working.  Some fairly sophisticated heuristics

    will be needed to avoid unnecessary copying between clusters.
    I may decide to move the 2.0 release to mid-January to give myself some

    more time.  This is similar to what we did for 1.8.  Also, I think a

    January release is better then a Christmas release because people get

    busy with christmas-like things.  I want the filesystem to be at least

    beta quality as of the release and I don't think its possible to get it

    there by mid-December.
						-Matt