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To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
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Subject: Re: vm balance 
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:33:39 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200104180540.WAA58303@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick writes:

>Every vnode in the system has an associated object. 

No: device vnodes dont...

I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from
vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets.

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