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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... 
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:41:06 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>> No, it doesn't have to be SLICE.  In particular, if we're going the
>> SLICE way, it should be done >right<, and Julians SLICE code didn't 
>> do that. (I know, I spent close to 6 months prototyping the concept
>> and julian had my code to work from).
>
>Wouldn't it be possible to fit this into the device system?  If we treat
>disks as devices and partition types as drivers, most of the boring work
>of matching drivers to devices and keeping lists and trees of objects will
>happen automatically.

Well, as long as you remember that it is not a strict hierarchy:
I could slice two disks, mirror the slices and concatenate the
mirrors if I wanted to.

It's not tricky to get it right, once you know where the pitfalls are,
the trick is to get it right AND make it elegant.

--
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!

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