From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 28 06:47:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18874 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 06:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18864 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 06:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA25556; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:43:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199808281343.PAA25556@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: FFS questions In-Reply-To: from Curt Sampson at "Aug 27, 98 10:31:59 pm" To: cjs@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:43:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Curt Sampson: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The position table and all the optimisations related to second-guessing > > the behaviour of the disk are now pessimisations in most cases, and > > should be eliminated entirely. > > Ooo...you're going to regret that when you do your VAX 11/750 port! :-) :-D Lucky we're never gonna have one, though. NetBSD is still being worked on for VAX (by a friend at the uni here), though. Optimizing, writing device drivers for "new" hardware, etc. :-) /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message