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To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:51:11 +0100
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Subject: Re: struct buf * and journaled-UFS help 
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In message <20040304163927.5babadf9@kanpc.gte.com>, Alexander Kabaev writes:

>If you don't need any delwri functionality struct buf provides, I would
>suggest using struct bio to route IO directly to storage drivers/geom.

No, nono! nonononoOOOOO!!!!

We do not want to maintain two I/O paths from one filesystem which
already has it's laundry picked up in SPECFS.

UFS must stick to the buffer cache for now.

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