On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Matt doesn't represent the FreeBSD project, and even if he rewrites
> the VFS subsystem so he can understand it, his rewrite would face
> considerable resistance on its way into FreeBSD. I don't think
> there is reason to rewrite it, but there certainly are areas
> that need fixing.
You are misinformed as far as I know.. From discussions I saw, th
main architect of a VFS rewrite would be Kirk, and Matt would be acting as
Kirk's right-hand-man.
>
> >> The use of the "vfs_default" to make unimplemented VOP's
> >> fall through to code which implements function, while well
> >> intentioned, is misguided.
>
> I beg to differ. The only difference is that we pass through
> multiple layers before we hit the bottom of the stack. There is
> no loss of functionality but significant gain of clarity and
> modularity.
Well I believe that Kirk considers them misguided too, but he stated that
he wasn't going to remove them without serious thought about the alternatives.
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