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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: The VIVA file system (fwd)
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:26:30 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608270227.TAA23789@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 26, 96 07:27:10 pm
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> > I must admit that it looked rather similar to the LFS stuff, so the
> > forwarding of the message was meant to stimulate some discussion of
> > the merits of both, rather than as urging for people to play "catch up".
> > I'm getting a little impatient for LFS and was wondering what was
> > happening.
> 
> I'm not the one to ask about LFS; it's interesting, but not enough
> for me to want to hack on it.  I think the Lite2 did not integrate
> it over the vnode locking changes, so it's more than a little work,
> since it needs that, plus it needs the VM integration (our VM access
> should be macrotized for a generic VM for porting anyway).  It's all
> quite nasty in there.
> 
I am tonight porting LFS, maybe with some luck will get it to work.  However,
the FreeBSD VM/Buffer cache stuff affects the filesystem only slightly esp.
now.  The biggest issue in porting from the old Lite stuff is getting
rid of gratuitious vnode_pager_uncaches, and changing the ordering of
some operations slightly.

John