From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 01:13:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28749 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28731 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA04975; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:41:52 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA23187; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:41:51 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980927174150.O20205@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:41:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Holland , "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Slice implementation (was: Current is Really Broken(tm)) References: <199809261652.KAA05259@narnia.plutotech.com> <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 10:45:42PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 26 September 1998 at 22:45:42 -0400, David Holland wrote: >>>> This is exactly the opposite of what is realized by SLICE. SLICE >>>> does the "mount" at a deep level of the drivers (in an interrupt >>>> handler). >>> >>> ...Which was one of the most wrong things about it. >> >> Whatever replaces it must be able to be notified of insertion and >> removal events from an interrupt context. > > ... but trying to process mounts there is foolhardy. I mean, when you > stick a floppy in, it would be nice if it automatically mounted > itself, like Macs could do fourteen years back, but doing a filesystem > mount from an interrupt isn't feasible. I thought Bruce said that it was at the beginning of this message (deepest level of quotes). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message