From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 1:13:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADDB37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.140.38.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.140.38]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13253; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B948D58.EDCD5396@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 01:14:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Zhihui Zhang , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is VT_TFS? References: <3B946708.ECB7307B@mindspring.com> <3B94702B.8FAEDEB@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > > What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it > > > still available on FreeBSD? Thanks. > > > > Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; the first public > > reference machine for 386BSD (which later became FreeBSD and > > NetBSD) was ref.tfs.com. TRW supported a lot of the early > > 386BSD/FreeBSD effort, back before Walnut Creek CDROM threw > > in and had us change the version number from 0.1 to 1.0 to > > make it a bit easier to sell. The version numbers have been > > bloating ever since... > > I think you are thinking of other stuff I did at TFS, (we had > something similar) but never committed here.. this was actually > done in the following commit: Hunh. I could have sworn that that was your baby... I guess I'm just remembering a conversation about the "something similar". In any case, it's useful to let a VFS layer "own" its vnodes... so I'd leave it there: never know when you might need it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message