From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 11:45:21 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B99C14C93; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA17263; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:39:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Matthew Dillon , Matthew Jacob , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:35:56 +0800." <19990919183556.802C81CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:39:44 +0200 Message-ID: <17261.937766384@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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