Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:37:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Message-ID: <199806242137.OAA17628@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806241337.JAA08926@rtfm.ziplink.net> from "Mikhail Teterin" at Jun 24, 98 09:37:32 am
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> =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. > > Just wondering, can't one do all the buffering one needs in user-space? > With, say, buffer or team? I agree; buffering should be done in user programs. Death to stdio! After all, all it is is a bunch more code to write in very application, instead of once, in the kernel. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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