Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:45:42 -0400 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809261652.KAA05259@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 26, 98 12:52:32 pm
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> >>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.
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