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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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