Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:54:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c vfs_bio.c src/sys/sys buf.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004030144330.1715-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <14379.954688153@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200004021459.IAA11447@caspian.plutotech.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" wri > >Do we even want "buffer" to be part of the name? By the time the > Well, bio means "block I/O" to me these days and we already have > a lot of names which point to that as the logical prefix (biodone() > being just one of them). I thought it meant "buffer i/o". "struct bio" is unfortunately even more block-specific than "struct buf", since it doesn't have anything like "off_t b_offset". b_offset is currently used mainly in the acd driver to handle weird block sizes. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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