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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: The VIVA file system (fwd)
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> 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.

Any chance you can replace them with a null macro, instead of just diking
them out, in order to make the code less VM implementation dependent?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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