Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 02:59:31 -0400 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: dholland@cs.toronto.edu, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <98Sep27.025935edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <10170.906875813@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 27, 98 01:56:53 am
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> >I think this is a false dichotomy; the way I'd probably implement it
> >if I set out on such a project is neither of these, but a mixture, as
> >follows:
>
> I pretty much thought so a couple of years ago as well.
>
> Then I tried to implement it.
Heheh. Well, I already wrote half of one of these things.
Unfortunately, the NetBSD disk drivers we were using had all the
disklabel code strewn throughout them and not abstracted out, and
fixing this was beyond the scope of our work... but in theory it
*should* work...
although I'll grant I forgot to design in removable media.
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