From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 25 13:41:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15743 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15732; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:41:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22576; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:39:18 +0100 (CET) To: Matthew Dillon cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:28:28 PST." <199901252128.NAA07749@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:39:17 +0100 Message-ID: <22574.917300357@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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