From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 30 14:38:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09241 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09198; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00697; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:35:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607302135.OAA00697@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Union mounts and other mounts To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:35:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, dfr@render.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Jul 26, 96 09:45:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >Is Kirk going to attack some of the same issues as Terry is talking about? > > >To improve my own understanding of the interface, I just started writing > > >manpages for the VFS entry points and VOP_LOOKUP makes me feel ill :-). > > > > Last I heard, Kirk was incorperating the recent work on soft metadata > > updates into the 4.4Lite2 code base. > > I also heard he was working on delayed ordered writes which might mean a > lot of changes per fs. > > Can anyone confirm the any of the above? I can confirm that USL has a patent on delayed ordered writes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.