From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 30 6:47:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE83114D07; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 06:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA28748; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:47:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: W Gerald Hicks , adrian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support References: <199904290441.AAA02012@bellsouth.net> <37281E66.7AAF71A3@newsguy.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 30 Apr 1999 15:47:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Daniel C. Sobral"'s message of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:55:02 +0900" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > 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. He is fixing the (currently completely bogus) vnode locking system so it will actually lock vnodes. The downside is, our current NFS implementation relies on vnode locking being broken. Fixing stacking layers will break NFS. That's my understanding of the matter, anyway. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message