From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 15 10:19:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01638 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01626 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA05539; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA16656; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981215191501.Y46780@follo.net> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: idea/help w. mirroring Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Dec-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:53:50AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: >> > Stacking layer. >> >> Ha ha ha, how about something that actually works, as opposed to >> "sounds good in the McKusick book"? As far as I can tell, there's not >> a single stackable filesystem in FreeBSD that works well enough to use >> in practice. > > I just think that the correct place to fix this is by fixing the > stacking code, not by re-inventing stacking hooks. I agree. But it's been broken for so long, and so many people have tried and failed to fix it, that I don't hold out much hope at this point. I would love to be proved wrong. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message