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>Couldn't you do this with the old setup as well, since you have access
>to the callouts at boot time in both schemes?

Sure.  You can dynamically add callouts in both the old and new schemes,
but the difference between Bruce's proposal and the current one is
that it is more expensive/difficult to add callouts incrementally after
the system is up (essentially on demand) since you have to reallocate
whole arrays.

>Nate


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