Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:42:29 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@acl.lanl.gov> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory-based VFS Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9905071138570.512720-100000@acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <199905071646.JAA45627@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Not to detract from the cool things people have been writing, but > in FreeBSD-current, it is possible to directly swap-back the VN device > and mount a softupdates-enabled filesystem over it. You effectively get Quite cool. This still doesn't do what v9fs does, though. v9fs is a simple VFS (which aspiring VFS writers can use as a tutorial) which is intended as the starting point for private name spaces for freebsd. As such, we need to grab control at the vnop level. We looked at -current to see if there was a suitable candidate, and found none: hence v9fs. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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