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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: Vmware and -current
Message-ID:  <199912240920.EAA76863@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912232121400.61026-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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> seems to work fine,
> except that now we don't have block devices any more 
> so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW.
> 
> I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger
> on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices.

Hmmm.... I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back... 
probably out of the question at this point...

> 
> of course this is w98.
> FreeBSD 1.1.5 and freebsd 3.3 seem run as well but I've only run them off
> virtual disks (which therefore have buffering)
> 

	 - Dave Rivers -


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