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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:56:30 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for objections: extended attribute and ACL interfaces 
Message-ID:  <5383.945593790@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:05:04 GMT." <199912182005.NAA01764@usr08.primenet.com> 

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In message <199912182005.NAA01764@usr08.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes:

>Peter, it should work without any handlers being present.  At the
>FreeBSDCon, Kirk agreed that the vfs_default.c stuff damaged the
>abstraction between UFS and FFS layers, which are supposed to be
>seperated as block management policy and directory hierarchy policy
>layers.  Ask Matt Dillon or Poul-Henning.

Terry, the interface between UFS and FFS isn't a vnode interface,
it is an *I*node interface.  It shouldn't use VOPs at all.

--
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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