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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:38:22 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New kernel code committed
Message-ID:  <19980106143822.50118@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801062023.PAA01477@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 03:23:08PM -0500
References:  <19980106073545.56514@mcs.net> <199801062023.PAA01477@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 03:23:08PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Karl Denninger said:
> > 
> > Do you know if this breaks my "back-out" nfs_bio.c use of v1.41, or if the
> > problems in NFS themselves would be fixed or helped by this?
> > 
> It should be okay, at least as good as it used to be.  It is going to be
> much easier to fix various problems with filesystems now.  We are now
> almost 100% compatible with the original 4.4Lite(and Lite/2) code, if
> the vm system hacks for the MACH VM code are removed.
> 
> We are much closer to a coherent design than either the original code,
> or our code in 2.2.X.  Hindsight is 20/20, and I am disappointed that
> I didn't do it this new way to begin with.
> 
> -- 
> John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

Thanks; I'll check it out.

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