From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 28 11:23:34 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD6B37B69B; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0SJNAK15135; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:23:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:39:09 PST." Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:23:10 +0100 Message-ID: <15133.980709790@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > >> >> One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which >> >> does work with DEVFS. >> > >> >Uh, I don't think so. MFS should be fixed. With MFS you should be able to take >> >advantage of VM. I don't think the same applies to md. >> >> Try it, and come back with numbers if you think it is worse... > >Can't really compare right now, now can I, if MFS is broken ... :-)... > >But seriously, I'll be using md a lot from now on and I'll let you know if it >seems broken.... Like I said in other mail (paraphrasing) "Seems like this >ought to be a VFS, but I don't really care" Yes, it ought to be a filesystem, but until struct buf is relieved of it's intimate knowledge about disks, it is not possible to do it using the UFS layer, which makes it a pointless excercise in cut&paste to write a proper TMPFS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message