Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:45:18 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... Message-ID: <19980607164518.18704@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199806061853.LAA22360@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 06:53:44PM %2B0000 References: <19980606162110.46376@follo.net> <199806061853.LAA22360@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 06:53:44PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I've run with them here for a week without any problem (under various > > loads), and I'm waiting for Peter Wemm to test them under NFS. If > > they pass, I guess they might be safe enough to commit - I don't think > > they should be able to cause heavy instability. I don't claim to > > understand all interactions in the FS area, though, so I feel slightly > > uncomfortable... > > It's a plate of wet spaghetti. You have to pull one strand at a time > and lay it out straight to have any hope of it fitting neatly into the > box it came in (John Heidemann's design). 8-|. In case somebody doesn't have the papers on this design (I assume you have all of the below), they are available from Heidemann's homepage at http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/ The ACM TOCS paper on stackable layers (the prime reference) is described on this page, along with references to postscript copies: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann93b.html > Are your vput changes available to be looked at anywhere? http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/vput-proc.patch Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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