From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Apr 18 10:15:39 2001
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To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: vm balance 
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:15:27 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200104181702.f3IH24s23282@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:
>    If this will get rid of or clean up the specfs garbage, then I'm all
>    for it.  I would love to see a 'clean' fileops based device interface.

specfs, aliased vnodes, you name it...

I think the aliased vnodes is the single most strong argument of them
all for doing this...

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