From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 00:00:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20812 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu (yonge.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA20737 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dholland@cs.toronto.edu) Received: from qew.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.1.13]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <86486-25414>; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 03:00:08 -0400 Received: by qew.cs.toronto.edu id <37768-5346>; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:59:35 -0400 Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) From: David Holland To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:59:31 -0400 Cc: dholland@cs.toronto.edu, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <10170.906875813@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 27, 98 01:56:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <98Sep27.025935edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I think this is a false dichotomy; the way I'd probably implement it > >if I set out on such a project is neither of these, but a mixture, as > >follows: > > I pretty much thought so a couple of years ago as well. > > Then I tried to implement it. Heheh. Well, I already wrote half of one of these things. Unfortunately, the NetBSD disk drivers we were using had all the disklabel code strewn throughout them and not abstracted out, and fixing this was beyond the scope of our work... but in theory it *should* work... although I'll grant I forgot to design in removable media. -- - David A. Holland | (please continue to send non-list mail to dholland@cs.utoronto.ca | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message