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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: nullfs & current UPDATE!
In-Reply-To: <19971022235352.22444@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Oct 22, 97 11:53:52 pm"
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:28:24 -0500 (EST)
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Ollivier Robert said:
> 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.
>  
and objects.

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