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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:33:39 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
Subject:   Re: vm balance 
Message-ID:  <33029.987575619@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:40:21 PDT." <200104180540.WAA58303@beastie.mckusick.com> 

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In message <200104180540.WAA58303@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick writes:

>Every vnode in the system has an associated object. 

No: device vnodes dont...

I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from
vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets.

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