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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:39:44 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) 
Message-ID:  <17261.937766384@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:35:56 %2B0800." <19990919183556.802C81CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

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In message <19990919183556.802C81CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes
:

>I personally like the idea of doing buffered IO via the VM system.
>[...].  struct buf then
>becomes just a plain IO request for the device interface.  Of course, this
>is easier said than done so I'll shut up now. :-)

Now *that* would be a neat way to do it.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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