From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 25 17:20:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA3714CCD for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA80192; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 23:08:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 23:08:14 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Ronald G. Minnich" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers Message-ID: <19990725230814.A78813@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990722211946.A31641@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Ronald G. Minnich on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. > > Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user > channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The > possibilities are endless ... > > A freebsd port would be nice. Maybe you could use v9fs as a starting > point. Ah, there's that "you" word again. Had everything gone to plan a few years ago, I'd have used FreeBSD to kickstart my Unix FS knowledge, and might be in a position to do that. Somehow I got sidetracked on to the Doc. Proj., which is kind of where I've stayed :-) N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message