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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:24:04 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock), wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov, Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite 
Message-ID:  <1169.934997044@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:16:46 -0000." <199908181716.KAA12220@usr02.primenet.com> 

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In message <199908181716.KAA12220@usr02.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>> > > I'm not familiar with the VFS_default stuff. All the vop_default_desc
>> > > routines in NetBSD point to error routines.
>> > 
>> > In FreeBSD, they now point to default routines that are *not* error
>> > routines.  This is the problem.  I admit the change was very well
>> > intentioned, since it made the code a hell of a lot more readable,
>> > but choosing between readable and additional function, I take function
>> > over form (I think the way I would have "fixed" the readability is by
>> > making the operations that result in the descriptor set for a mounted
>> > FS instance be both discrete, and named for their specific function).
>> 
>> As I recall most of FBSD's default routines are also error routines, if
>> the exceptions were a problem it would would be trivial to fix.
>
>You would have to de-collapse several VOP lists that have been
>pre-collapsed.

You are talking gibberish here.  Please show code where this is
a problem.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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