From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 19 11: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D249159DE; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13024; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:02:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAH8aWyz; Thu Aug 19 11:02:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25563; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:02:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908191802.LAA25563@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 18:02:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, michaelh@cet.co.jp, wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov, Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37BB88F3.7184305@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Aug 19, 99 01:32:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Make sure that the system you are talking to over the proxy is > > not assumed to be a FreeBSD system (e.g. don't assume that the > > vfs_default stuff exists on the other end of the proxy, or that > > it would be functional). > > Now, Terry, that is ridiculous. One has to assume that both ends > play by the same rules. That is not only a reasonably expectation, > it's minimum requirement for any protocol to work. That's kind of the point. No other VFS stacking system out there plays by FreeBSD's revamped rules. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message