Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:41:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Slice implementation (was: Current is Really Broken(tm)) Message-ID: <19980927174150.O20205@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 10:45:42PM -0400 References: <199809261652.KAA05259@narnia.plutotech.com> <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu>
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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
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