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Date:      	Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:45:42 -0400
From:      David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
To:        gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Current is Really Broken(tm)
Message-ID:  <98Sep26.224550edt.37768-5346@qew.cs.toronto.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809261652.KAA05259@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 26, 98 12:52:32 pm

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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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     dholland@cs.utoronto.ca      | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.)

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