From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 28 12:27:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06847 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06842 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA12171; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdt12164; Mon Sep 28 19:24:47 1998 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Bruce Evans cc: archie@whistle.com, dholland@cs.toronto.edu, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) In-Reply-To: <199809260137.LAA16175@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> My perspective on this is that disklabels and partitions are a > >> protozoic kind of file system -- essentially, that the way to think > >> about what needs to happen is that you need to mount `partitionfs' on > >> the device /dev/wd0. This `mount' then supplies the other wd0* devices. > >> (Whether it goes through the same code path as normal filesystem > >> mounts, or looks at all like them, is unimportant. Bear with me.) > >> > >> This view of the world has two immediate consequences: > >> 1) partition handling should be independent from disk drivers. > >> 2) probing for partitions becomes relatively straightforward. > > > >This is just the idea that is realized by SLICE. > > This is exactly the opposite of what is realized by SLICE. SLICE > does the "mount" at a deep level of the drivers (in an interrupt > handler). Actrually thew version I run here, requests the probe at the interrupt level and a worker thread in the kernel then does the actual probing, but hey, it's all deleted so who cares. > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message