From owner-cvs-sys Wed Jul 24 14:00:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-sys Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15750 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA15741; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00586; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:59:48 +0200 (MET DST) To: Doug Rabson cc: Bruce Evans , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c src/sys/i386/isa/matcd matcd.c src/sys/kern kern_conf.c src/sys/scsi cd.c od.c sd.c st.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:00:37 BST." Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:59:48 +0200 Message-ID: <584.838241988@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I sincerely belive it's time to get DEVFS kicked the next mile and get >> rid of this problem once and for all. >> >> Too bad about the crowd screaming for "persistence" in DEVFS :-( > >Then we should let Terry loose on the VFS interface as long as he promises >to fix the union filesystem. There should be enough functionality in >unionfs for most of the persistence needed as long as we implement >whiteouts. Terry is most welcome to submit patches/source. Last I talked with him he was supposed to upload his entire kernel-tree so >I< could try to make diffs we could use. Never heard where he put it though... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.