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Date:      23 Jan 2000 17:55:37 +0100
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDF, userfs
Message-ID:  <5lk8l0afsm.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:38:25 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000123103514.5260A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> writes:
> be asking a lot.  What XFS might benefit from is a userland library that
> provides a "pretty" interface to /dev/xfs0, so that the user process
> doesn't have to interact directly with the LPCs, instead it sees a
> function interface.  Last I checked, that already existed to some extent,
> but that piece of the code wasn't seperable from Arla.

Yeah - `rip out the pieces you need from arlad is a particular pretty
interface' but we're working on moving those parts out out and making
a library of them.

> Assar--do you guys support multiple /dev/xfsX's running at the same time?
> Last I checked, I was under the impression that you didn't, but that was a
> while ago and could also have been a false impression :-).

Yes, we do.  Currently it's hard-coded at two minor devices but that
should be more dynamic.

/assar


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