Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:54:09 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? Message-ID: <199601080324.NAA00366@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9043.821043381@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 7, 96 08:36:21 pm
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > This still means that swap operations have to go through the FAT filesystem > > code, which is slow and buggy. I'm looking for a performance solution > > here, not a crumb to throw to people with space problems. > Well, the right solution is to fix the msdosfs to have a decent performance > in the cases needed and to bug davidg & dyson to implement swapping on > any random vnode... That still doesn't achieve what I want, which is for 'native' FreeBSD disk slices to be able to exist _inside_ a FAT filesystem. > More as an architectural principle... It's really bde's code, so you'd > better ask him. Ok. Bruce? > > The first one is at 0x1600, the file ends at 0x1402000, which doesn't > > make any sense to me yet but I'm sure something may click 8) > the size ? *laugh* No, I meant the asymmetrical offsets of the funny patches inside the file. > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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