Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:39:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) Message-ID: <17261.937766384@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:35:56 %2B0800." <19990919183556.802C81CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <19990919183556.802C81CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >I personally like the idea of doing buffered IO via the VM system. >[...]. struct buf then >becomes just a plain IO request for the device interface. Of course, this >is easier said than done so I'll shut up now. :-) Now *that* would be a neat way to do it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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