From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 13:08:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA02005 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:08:03 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA01983 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:07:57 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA10280; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:06:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id MAA02502; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:06:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199503142006.MAA02502@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:59:16 CST." <9503141859.AA02884@olympus> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:06:09 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I was getting ready to ask about 1). Couldn't 2) be fixed? Taking an SVR4 >internals class and now I can ask all kinds of stupid questions! > >Boyd > >I am not implying that 2) is worth fixing but with it's own file system and >operations, it seems you could redirect the vnode to point into swap if the >refcnt is greater than 0. Please tell me if I'm wrong. It is possible to architect it in a way that would allow sharing. This would likely require (among other things) a compression filesystem to manage it. It's even conceivable that you might be able to devise a method and still use a variant of the current technology...but no matter how you slice it, it's going to be a difficult thing to do. -DG