From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 19:46:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA04986 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04980 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id TAA05868; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:46:31 -0800 Message-Id: <199601180346.TAA05868@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Julian Elischer cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:56:57 PST." <199601180156.RAA28650@ref.tfs.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:46:31 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> >> > 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