From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 2:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F3814F2F; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id SAA19332; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:35:07 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37281E66.7AAF71A3@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:55:02 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: adrian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support References: <199904290441.AAA02012@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > I find it really curious that layered filesystems seem to never be > > considered for the jobs they were created for. > > Filesystem layering is not in very good shape right now, although > Eivind has been spotted making good progress. AFAIK, he is making the existing fs (more specifically nullfs and maybe unionfs) work, not correcting any existing flaw in the layering code. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message