Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 10:26:56 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Vmware and -current Message-ID: <29046.946027616@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:20:27 EST." <199912240920.EAA76863@lakes.dignus.com>
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In message <199912240920.EAA76863@lakes.dignus.com>, Thomas David Rivers writes : >> 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... It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back, but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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