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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        cwsung@Sung.org (Christian Sung)
Cc:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org, peter@netplex.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Subject:   Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear!
Message-ID:  <199806242117.OAA09173@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806240717.AAA27134@vampire.sung.org> from Christian Sung at "Jun 24, 98 00:17:49 am"

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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

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