Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:46:31 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199601180346.TAA05868@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:56:57 PST." <199601180156.RAA28650@ref.tfs.com>
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>> >> > The only problem with devfs is that the author is never happy with it >> > and starts re-writing it from the beginning again before ever finishing >> > any of the previous versions. :-) >> >actually I'm kinda happyu with it as it is. The only thing that needs to be >done is to add devfs entrys in the SLICE code.. >to tell the truth I'd REALLY like BRUCE to do it as he has all that in his >head, and I don't feel happy abut doing it.. >If that were added it's pretty much complete.. >needs some code for removing items and such but we could start >using it in earnest if that were done. Recent testing I did with devfs showed that it was eating up vnodes like crazy. All I had to do was stat a devfs file and it would eat another vnode. The system seems to eventually recycle them, but something isn't quite right about this. I haven't looked any further into this yet. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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