Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:56:01 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.dk> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS/SLICE passes milestone Message-ID: <199711261356.OAA05520@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971126032124.2992A-200000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 26, 97 03:46:23 am"
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In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote:
>
> San francisco, Early Tuesday morning,
>
> DEVFS passed a critical milestone today when my PC here booted up a kernel
> using only DEVFS based devices. The kernel used DEVFS to find the root
> device and mount it, finding it by NAME (sd1s1a) rather than by
> major/minor numbers. The disk devices were all created dynamically using
> the "slice" subsystem so that all IO to the disks was flowing through the
> SLICE system's "IOreq" entrypoints rather than the older disk 'strategy()'
> entrypoints.
>
> The disk partitionning is being handled by separate MBR and DISKLABEL
> SLICE objects, rather than by the older disk 'slicing' code.
> The drivers have SLICE entrypoints added, in addition to the usual
> entrypoints, which are no longer being used.
> teh SLICE code is also known as "storage layering".
Klokkerholm early wednesday afternoon,
I would like if you where concentrating on makeing DEVFS work, then
started to play with new SLICE code. Now we get a monster patch that
noone has the time to deal with (you should know that now you have
Terry onboard :) ), and thereby has much less chance of getting into
the sources.
We asked you to clean up DEVFS and get it to work, or it would be
thrown out, not to pull in further "enhancements".....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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