From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 19:28:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA07280 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 19:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA07195 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 19:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA00366; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:54:10 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601080324.NAA00366@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:54:09 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9043.821043381@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 7, 96 08:36:21 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > This still means that swap operations have to go through the FAT filesystem > > code, which is slow and buggy. I'm looking for a performance solution > > here, not a crumb to throw to people with space problems. > Well, the right solution is to fix the msdosfs to have a decent performance > in the cases needed and to bug davidg & dyson to implement swapping on > any random vnode... That still doesn't achieve what I want, which is for 'native' FreeBSD disk slices to be able to exist _inside_ a FAT filesystem. > More as an architectural principle... It's really bde's code, so you'd > better ask him. Ok. Bruce? > > The first one is at 0x1600, the file ends at 0x1402000, which doesn't > > make any sense to me yet but I'm sure something may click 8) > the size ? *laugh* No, I meant the asymmetrical offsets of the funny patches inside the file. > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[