From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 11:57:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC46A158DC; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA01776; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:56:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Terry Lambert Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov, Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:48:01 -0000." <199908181848.LAA14960@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1774.935002618@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199908181848.LAA14960@usr02.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >> >You would have to de-collapse several VOP lists that have been >> >pre-collapsed. >> >> You are talking gibberish here. Please show code where this is >> a problem. > >When you write a proxy stacking layer, such as John Heidemann's >network proxy stacking layer (an NFS alternative), VOP's which >would normally be handled by vfs_default have to be handled on >the other end of the proxy, instead, in the same way that they >would be handled by the vfs_default stuff. And what prevents you from taking over the default op ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message