From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Jul 17 09:46:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11397 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatewayb.anheuser-busch.com (gatewayb.anheuser-busch.com [151.145.250.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA11384 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com) Received: by gatewayb.anheuser-busch.com; id LAA10220; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:43:29 -0500 Received: from stlabcexg004.anheuser-busch.com( 151.145.101.160) by gatewayb via smap (V2.1) id xma009962; Fri, 17 Jul 98 11:43:10 -0500 Received: by stlabcexg004.anheuser-busch.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:46:10 +0100 Message-ID: <31B3F0BF1C40D11192A700805FD48BF901776614@STLABCEXG011> From: "Alton, Matthew" To: "Hancock, Michael (Internet)" Cc: "'FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: LFS Hacking Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:46:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Hancock, Michael (Internet) > Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 11:06 AM > To: Alton, Matthew > Cc: 'FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: RE: LFS Hacking > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Alton, Matthew wrote: > > > Vahalla's > > _UNIX Internals_ has shed considerable light on the subject. > > Yeah, excellent book. One thing that was wrong in the book was that > it > said in BSD 4.4 you were able to take advantage of state and process > paths > in chunks of components up to mount points in stateful systems. But > it > actually works as it does in SYSV processing component at a time as if > all > file systems were stateless. > > If we did take advantage of such state then stacking would probably > even > more complicated to get right. [Alton, Matthew] Is Heideman's (or anyone else's) FS stacking being worked on right now? I tell ya, I spent a good 10 minutes last night in lamentation mode over the egregious and unforgivable termination of the ARPA BSD funding. I'm acclimating to the whole cathedral/bazaar thing but I just jones away something awful for the academic rigor and coordination that the old-timers had. I'm going to think up a way to do something about this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message