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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Union mounts and other mounts
To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:16:07 -0700 (MST)
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> > Terry, are you out there?
> > 
> > Please upload your mega patches.  I'm sure someone will take a look and
> > maybe we can at least start with getting the locks fixed.
> > 
> I want to consider including Terry's stuff.  Even though I do filesystem
> hacking from time to time, I think that we need to get agreement from
> other's (on the team) on the changes.  The changes have significant
> architectural implications.
> 
> At least, in certain areas, Terry is on the right track...  We need to
> get consensus on the changes.  The last batch of changes don't fix all
> of the problems, and Jeffery Hsu's stuff should be reviewed and appropriately
> included also.  I actually think that we are stagnating in this area a "little
> bit."  But again, I don't feel qualified to make wholesale changes in that
> (the VFS) section of the kernel, without agreement from others...  Anybody
> have any ideas on this impasse?

Jeffrey's mount changes are my mount code with some of the edges knocked
off... he's done a good job on it.  It happens to work around a couple of
known problems in the Lite2 code, so he included them.

The other changes are less seperable, which is why Poul has asked for
a source tree copy (as in previous message: I will try for this weekend).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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