From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jan 23 8:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from assaris.sics.se (assaris.sics.se [193.10.66.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B2414C98 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from assar@assaris.sics.se) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA06787; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:55:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from assar) To: Robert Watson Cc: Brian Beattie , Greg Lehey , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDF, userfs References: From: Assar Westerlund Date: 23 Jan 2000 17:55:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:38:25 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <5lk8l0afsm.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Watson 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message