Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 08:05:26 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/5355: Fix for NULLFS problems Message-ID: <199712261305.IAA00517@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199712260802.TAA11527@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 26, 97 07:02:25 pm"
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Bruce Evans said: > >I am the perpetrator of the f_iosize evil. Maybe we need to reevaluate > >the design of this. > > No, f_iosize is standard in BSD4.4Lite, although it wasn't in FreeBSD-1.1.5. > It seems to be correct to use it for nullfs, although not for specfs. > Thats what I meant. It is likely just as correct for all filesystems, but the faults and confusion are something that needs to be evaluated. I think that the problem with specfs is that the default size is bogus. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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