From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 22 17:36:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16229 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16224 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:36:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00607; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:36:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803230136.UAA00607@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: CURRENT Kernel Status In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 22, 98 05:00:18 pm" To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:36:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, toor@dyson.iquest.net, karl@mcs.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You are right. This braught to mind to question the necessity of having a > unified buffer I/O subsystem. In a truely compartmentalized system, the VM > could have had nothing to do with data files I/O. Yet, even that would not > have saved us from a bug. One of the virtues of Unix is a unified kernel. > Any bug effectes any system. > Our recent bugs were actually in the VFS code. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message