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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:23:10 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <15133.980709790@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:39:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281038030.21326-100000@beppo.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281038030.21326-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes:
>
>> >> One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which
>> >> does work with DEVFS.
>> >
>> >Uh, I don't think so. MFS should be fixed. With MFS you should be able to take
>> >advantage of VM. I don't think the same applies to md.
>> 
>> Try it, and come back with numbers if you think it is worse...
>
>Can't really compare right now, now can I, if MFS is broken ... :-)...
>
>But seriously, I'll be using md a lot from now on and I'll let you know if it
>seems broken.... Like I said in other mail (paraphrasing) "Seems like this
>ought to be a VFS, but I don't really care"

Yes, it ought to be a filesystem, but until struct buf is relieved of it's
intimate knowledge about disks, it is not possible to do it using the
UFS layer, which makes it a pointless excercise in cut&paste to write a
proper TMPFS.

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