Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:39:17 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c Message-ID: <22574.917300357@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:28:28 PST." <199901252128.NAA07749@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matt, I simply don't understand why you need this as a variable in the first place, clearly if it is a "per-host" basis, you can find it using `hostname` or similar methods ? While I am in general terms `pro` a registry of some kind, I will strongy object to sysctl being used for registry tasks like this one. A far better, and more UNIX like, way would be to mount a MFS on some directory and stick the info there... Along those likes, I would really like to see a "true" VMFS instead of the hack MFS is. Isn't that a task for you since you have more insight into the VM system than I do ? The trick is to write a new backend for UFS (like mfs/ffs and to some extent ext2fs), which uses a VM object with anonymous backing for each inodes storage requirement. The most tricky bit is casting things from VA to ufs-block number, the rest is downhill. -- 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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