Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:13:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org, pst@jnx.com Subject: Re: Thoughts on implementation of communications protocols Message-ID: <199608231713.KAA16054@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <v02140b03ae43480e0b3b@[199.183.109.242]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Aug 23, 96 10:12:41 am
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> I like the suggestion of passing along a "dead/alive" tag with each message. > That way accounting routines can still get a chance at things which a > filter has blocked. Everyone else would just pass it along until it gets to > a protocol switching node which shunts it to the "bit bucket". > > - - - - - > > Now, here's a scary thought... Would the same kind of mechanism also work > for file systems? It would certainly make it easy to handle encrypted file > systems and foreign FS structures. We could call it "VFS". 8-) 8-0 8-) 8-P We already have a stacking system for the FS that does what you want; it just can't collapse stacks to get the equivalent single-layer implementation. And that's been hacked on already, it's a matter of integration order. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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