Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:13:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <200101280213.f0S2DDi00916@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:02:38 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271758470.20246-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> I'll have to re-examine this. What I want and what people can/should use MFS
> or md for is like solaris tmpfs. Even with softupdates it's preferrable to
> have a volatile filesystem. I would think a VFS would be better at doing this
> than a 'device driver', but I really don't care.
I think you're right, and I understand now what you're getting at.
> If MFS is really currently broken by DEVFS and md really does replace it, then
> it should be nuked from GENERIC.
MFS' should be fixed, even if just back to its previous "mostly broken"
state, IMO. Most of my objections to it have simply been that it never
worked "right" in the first place.
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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