From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 18 10:57:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88D1A37B42C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 4136 invoked by uid 666); 18 Apr 2001 18:00:06 -0000 Received: from i192-224.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.192.224) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 18:00:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3ADDD553.46BF216D@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:56:35 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Matt Dillon , Robert Watson , Kirk McKusick , Rik van Riel , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu Subject: Re: vm balance References: <40677.987614127@critter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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... Great. Then we have aliased file pointers... that's not a great improvement.. You'd still have to have 'per instance' storage somewhere, so that the openned devices could have different permissions, and still have them point to common data. so you still need aliases, except now it's not a vnode being aliased but some other structure. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message