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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:36:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, toor@dyson.iquest.net, karl@mcs.net
Subject:   Re: CURRENT Kernel Status
Message-ID:  <199803230136.UAA00607@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980322170018.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 22, 98 05:00:18 pm"

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> 
> You are right.  This braught to mind to question the necessity of having a
> unified buffer I/O subsystem.  In a truely compartmentalized system, the VM
> could have had nothing to do with data files I/O.  Yet, even that would not
> have saved us from a bug.  One of the virtues of Unix is a unified kernel. 
> Any bug effectes any system.
> 
Our recent bugs were actually in the VFS code.

John

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