From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 24 14:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01917 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01392; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA24690; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma024684; Wed Jun 24 14:17:31 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id OAA09173; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:17:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199806242117.OAA09173@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! In-Reply-To: <199806240717.AAA27134@vampire.sung.org> from Christian Sung at "Jun 24, 98 00:17:49 am" To: cwsung@Sung.org (Christian Sung) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, peter@netplex.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, chuckr@glue.umd.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Sung writes: > I **strongly** agree. I don't see a significant gain in removing block > devices, yet it somehow seems that on the other hand we'd lose some degree > of functionality in doing so. The gain is not in user functionality, but in kernel simplicity, efficiency and maintainability. I'm all for it. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message