Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:14:19 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c Message-ID: <6319.1131639259@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:55:12 MST." <43736D60.5060703@samsco.org>
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In message <43736D60.5060703@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >Ok, so now you need to teach the consumers like NFS to de-interleave the >cookies from the dirents, which isn't all that straight forward because >the dirents are all various sizes. Not a hard problem to solve, but I >don't see what the net gain is here. The net gain is that the memory management gets a lot simpler and that cookies become a property of the dirent instead of their own magic thing. But I'll agree that this is not a major issue, just one of those hacks that we need to straighten out before the confusion and and copy&paste infestation spreads too much. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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