Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:41:06 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <25357.917347266@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:25:21 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901260922311.88955-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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>> No, it doesn't have to be SLICE. In particular, if we're going the >> SLICE way, it should be done >right<, and Julians SLICE code didn't >> do that. (I know, I spent close to 6 months prototyping the concept >> and julian had my code to work from). > >Wouldn't it be possible to fit this into the device system? If we treat >disks as devices and partition types as drivers, most of the boring work >of matching drivers to devices and keeping lists and trees of objects will >happen automatically. Well, as long as you remember that it is not a strict hierarchy: I could slice two disks, mirror the slices and concatenate the mirrors if I wanted to. It's not tricky to get it right, once you know where the pitfalls are, the trick is to get it right AND make it elegant. -- 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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