From owner-cvs-sys Tue Jan 6 01:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA22586 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-sys) Received: from mailhub (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA22498; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com by mailhub (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id BAA15785; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:31:24 -0800 Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.dk.tfs.com [140.145.230.252]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15127; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:38:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.dk.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00436; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:35:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "John S. Dyson" 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. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 02:56:55 EST." <199801060756.CAA05511@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:35:02 +0100 Message-ID: <434.884079302@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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."