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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:57:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vxfs (was Re: overclocking)
Message-ID:  <199706111957.OAA09630@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199706111847.LAA06429@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jun 11, 97 11:47:57 am"

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> [ ... VXFS ... ]
> 
> > It's not available for *BSD.  The reasons cited were ...
> > 
> > 1) It's a large porting task, fs/vnode semantics vary quite a bit
> >    between Unix implementations.
> 
> Actually, it would not be a difficult port (I worked on the VXFS
> code in UnixWare a bit; I'm fairly familiar with it).  The most
> difficult task would be the Vm/Cache issues, mostly because the
> new VM system is poorly documented (good code; bad docs).
> 
I disagree (here is my correction):

 new VM system is poorly documented (good code; NO docs).

:-(.

John



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