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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:29:55 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, tlambert2@mindspring.com, "Patrick W. Penzias Dirks" <pwd@apple.com>, FreeBSD-FS@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for pivot_root-like system call?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106090922230.72173-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <20010608130128.E1832@superconductor.rush.net>

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> The cache coherency bugs are not fixed for all cases, being able to
> ask the underlying filesystem for the vm_object does not solve the
> problem.
> 
> What if i have a stacking layer where each page alternates
> between two files that i'm stacked on top of?

	This is a case of "fan-out" stacking and such filesystems are much
more complex than fan-in ones. VOP_*VOBJECT() were specifically designed
for fan-in type of stacking.

--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/


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