From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 22 15:04:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA02792 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA02664 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA03825 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:01:20 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id AAA20705 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:01:15 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-2.11/nospam) id XAA06026; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:53:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19971022235352.22444@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:53:52 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nullfs & current UPDATE! References: <19971021203807.51847@keltia.freenix.fr> <199710220203.TAA09608@usr03.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199710220203.TAA09608@usr03.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 02:03:10AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3745 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Terry Lambert: > Probably the "correct" way to handle this is to avoid aliases, and > instead establish a null_getpage/null_putpage VOP for page access, > and force it to make the reference to the underlying FS. Something I don't understand is why the vnode layer should be aware of things like pages ? We're talking about files, vnodes and such, not pages. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #41: Sat Oct 18 18:47:01 CEST 1997