Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:06:09 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: install compressed binary patch Message-ID: <199503142006.MAA02502@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:59:16 CST." <9503141859.AA02884@olympus>
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>I was getting ready to ask about 1). Couldn't 2) be fixed? Taking an SVR4 >internals class and now I can ask all kinds of stupid questions! > >Boyd > >I am not implying that 2) is worth fixing but with it's own file system and >operations, it seems you could redirect the vnode to point into swap if the >refcnt is greater than 0. Please tell me if I'm wrong. It is possible to architect it in a way that would allow sharing. This would likely require (among other things) a compression filesystem to manage it. It's even conceivable that you might be able to devise a method and still use a variant of the current technology...but no matter how you slice it, it's going to be a difficult thing to do. -DG
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