Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:46:38 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DISCUSS: vnode references as open instances Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970408194411.10905A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970408185516.10389B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Michael Hancock wrote: > Terry, > > I think it will be hard to get support to change ufs this drastically at > this time since Kirk is working on soft updates. And there is also quite > of a bit of community interest in having a trusted stable fs > implementation to fall back on. > > How you considered what Netcom? did with tfs? It seems they use their own > vnode allocation scheme. I vaguely remember seeing changes made to allow > this. I just verified this. Grep for VT_TFS in /sys/kern. It's a special case hack, but maybe we can come up with a more general way of informing the kernel that we're doing our own vnode management. Regards, Mike
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