Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: 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: <199909191920.MAA73966@apollo.backplane.com> References: <17318.937766744@critter.freebsd.dk>
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:Matt, remember the discussion here is about "If we only retain
:one of the interfaces, which should it be then ?"
:
:If we retain bdevs, Oracle and similar apps, which are much more
:common than the potential but practically non-existent apps which
:rely on bdev caching, would be hit hard by this overhead.
:
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:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
:phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
You are the one arguing to have just one interface, Poul, not me. I
think both are useful.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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