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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:31:57 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        <joeo@cracktown.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netbsd advances...
Message-ID:  <v0422080fb6499c5991a4@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10011281136530.7915-100000@ra.nks.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.10011281136530.7915-100000@ra.nks.net>

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At 11:38 AM -0500 2000/11/28, <joeo@cracktown.com> wrote:

>  UBC code integrated into NetBSD-current (27 Nov) (top)
>
>       Chuck Silvers has integrated the Unified Buffer Cache project code
>  into NetBSD-current. To build a new -current kernel from an existing
>  kernel configuration file, you'll want to remove any settings for
>  "BUFCACHE", "NBUF", or "BUFPAGES", and let the size of the buffer cache go
>  back to the default. After that, you'll need to rerun config, and then you
>  can build away.

	This brings up a good question -- does FreeBSD have a unified 
buffer cache?  If not, is there a particular reason why?

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