In message <16215.45030.31344.503298_at_grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin writes: > >Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > > > As soon as these uses of cloning code has been removed, I will move > > the floppy and CD drivers under GEOM, paving the way for the > > significant changes to the buf/VM system which some of you have > > already heard rumours about. (more will emerge after BSDcon'03) > > > > And now comes the bit which I would like to offer for discussion: > > > > Should we do this for 5.2 instead ? > > > >I think this sounds good. > >Can you give a hint as to what you mean by the significant buf/VM >system changes? Are you talking about removing the vnode detour for >drivers and giving drivers who want it access to the struct file? ... and all that stuff yes. It's been discussed in various emails in the past. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sun Oct 19 2003 - 22:53:36 UTC
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