From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 30 11:58:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mars.aros.net (mail.aros.net [207.173.16.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1271E154FC; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:58:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msanders@shell.aros.net) Received: from shell.aros.net (root@shell.aros.net [207.173.16.19]) by mars.aros.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA27413; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:58:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (msanders@localhost.aros.net [127.0.0.1]) by shell.aros.net (8.9.3/8.9.3a) with ESMTP id MAA98176; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:58:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199904301858.MAA98176@shell.aros.net> X-Attribution: msanders From: "Michael K. Sanders" To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Peter Jeremy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bright@rush.net Subject: Re: Some ideas on the evolution of -CURRENT In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:07:06 +0200." <19990430190706.A11334@bitbox.follo.net> X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:58:29 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990430190706.A11334@bitbox.follo.net>, Eivind Eklund writes: [ ... LFS ... ] >> Several other people have commented that NetBSD has got it going. >> How difficult would it be to merge the NetBSD stuff? > >Very - the problems are in the directions the VM system has taken. >NetBSDs work in this area is unlikely to be useful, I think - AFAIK, >even with UVM they haven't gone to a fully merged VM/buffer cache. I >would be happy to be proved wrong, of course. It's not unified yet, but work is being done in that area. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message