From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 2 9:38:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE2D37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DC543F93 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0246.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.246] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18pXPl-0000kc-00; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:38:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3E624133.8FB21AA6@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:36:51 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alan L. Cox" Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT References: <3E619B26.DF1E4FC7@imimic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4177e2f84cbf0e0555bd4b21f2e093821350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Alan L. Cox" wrote: > Before I begin work on vm_object locking, I'd like to remove > ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT from the kernel sources. ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT was a > work-in-progress by John Dyson to perform zero-copy file system I/O. > Unfortunately, it still has some unresolved issues, and no one has taken > an active interest in fixing them. > > For the record, both Matt Dillon and Tor Egge have stated in public or > private e-mail that they favor removing it. > Unless I hear an objection, I intend to remove it in a few days. Here's an idea... ask John Dyson about it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message