From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 17 1:15:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277DA37B408; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.136.134.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.136.134]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA04074; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B7CD25F.703F6D4D@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:14:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Julian Elischer , Greg Lehey , Andrew Kenneth Milton , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?)) References: <13799.998032619@critter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > >Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the > >wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the > >shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been solved and all I was waiting for > >was the CAM switchover, so that I didn't have to do everything twice. > > Yeah, and together with Terrys VFS patches that would have made Microsoft > bankrupt overnight. > > Sure... Hardly; many of my VFS patches were designed to make the code more portable... for instance, to Windows 95, where they ran without problems starting ~1995/1996... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message