Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:19:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea/help w. mirroring Message-ID: <XFMail.981215101910.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19981215191501.Y46780@follo.net>
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On 15-Dec-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:53:50AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>> > Stacking layer.
>>
>> Ha ha ha, how about something that actually works, as opposed to
>> "sounds good in the McKusick book"? As far as I can tell, there's not
>> a single stackable filesystem in FreeBSD that works well enough to use
>> in practice.
>
> I just think that the correct place to fix this is by fixing the
> stacking code, not by re-inventing stacking hooks.
I agree. But it's been broken for so long, and so many people have
tried and failed to fix it, that I don't hold out much hope at this
point. I would love to be proved wrong.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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