From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 24 14:38:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05943 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05890 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10965; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:37:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd010939; Wed Jun 24 14:37:54 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17628; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:37:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806242137.OAA17628@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! To: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806241337.JAA08926@rtfm.ziplink.net> from "Mikhail Teterin" at Jun 24, 98 09:37:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > =I **strongly** agree. I don't see a significant gain in removing block > =devices, yet it somehow seems that on the other hand we'd lose some degree > =of functionality in doing so. > > Just wondering, can't one do all the buffering one needs in user-space? > With, say, buffer or team? I agree; buffering should be done in user programs. Death to stdio! After all, all it is is a bunch more code to write in very application, instead of once, in the kernel. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message