Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:35:02 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: John's latest VM commit. Message-ID: <434.884079302@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 02:56:55 EST." <199801060756.CAA05511@dyson.iquest.net>
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In message <199801060756.CAA05511@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes: >It would probably be a good thing to make all caching in our system VM object >based. Then buffers will degrade into a structure used to communicate with >I/O devices. I would not like to see the terrible mess that SVR4 has, with >various types of vnode like structures in order to represent swap, filesyste >m, device files. YES!!!! Struct buf should just be the way you explain to a (block)-devicedriver what you want it to do. This links right into Julians slice code :-) go John GO! :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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