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Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm)
From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: 	Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:45:42 -0400
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 > >>This is exactly the opposite of what is realized by SLICE.  SLICE
 > >>does the "mount" at a deep level of the drivers (in an interrupt
 > >>handler).
 > > 
 > > ...Which was one of the most wrong things about it.
 > 
 > Whatever replaces it must be able to be notified of insertion and
 > removal events from an interrupt context.  

... but trying to process mounts there is foolhardy. I mean, when you
stick a floppy in, it would be nice if it automatically mounted
itself, like Macs could do fourteen years back, but doing a filesystem
mount from an interrupt isn't feasible.

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